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by pil0u 220 days ago
With Gmail, also note that firstname.lastname@gmail.com is equivalent to firstnamelastname@gmail.com or fi.rs.tn.am.el.as.tn.am.e@gmail.com

As some other comment suggested, these rules are easy to tackle by motivated spammers.
1 comments
askl 220 days ago
If they were motivated, they wouldn't work as spammers.
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esseph 220 days ago
Some spammers make obscene amounts of money. CEO of Fortune 100 money.
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chipsrafferty 220 days ago
10% of all of Meta's income is from scammers.
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docmars 220 days ago
I see what ya did there, you get an upvote.
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