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by crazygringo 132 days ago
Has anyone ever paid you?

The technical side of this seems easy enough. The human side, that seems more complicated.

Like, if I were your doctor or contractor or kid's schoolteacher or whoever you hadn't happened to already whitelist, and had sent you something important for you, and got that back as a response... I'm sure as heck not paying when I'm trying to send you something for your benefit.
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spruce_tips 132 days ago
no one paid me but didnt really have this running for very long on my inbox. was really just a poc. and you're right - the human side is weird. surprisingly hard to solve the "real human, not spam, that's also an email address you see for the first time" scenarios, which there are many of - even with LLMs
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vasco 132 days ago
Yeah, meanwhile a scammer will actually pay to have a seal of approval.

It's a great way to stop receiving anything that benefits yourself and only start receiving mail which could make the sender way more than $1

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chmod775 132 days ago
> Yeah, meanwhile a scammer will actually pay to have a seal of approval.

No they won't. Especially not automated spam. They'd just get farmed by people creating millions of fake e-mail addresses.

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