@muratcorlu This is a great question. The three possibilities I can think of:
- Someone trying to pre-clean a bought/stolen email list (wouldn’t help with knowing which addresses would bounce, but would give info on which email addresses were genuinely invalid/malformed)
- A targeted attack (but it seems too widespread for this to be the intent) or an attempt to drive the price of some service (CDNs and firewalls? Email validation? a Ghost competitor? IDK, it doesn’t seem likely)
- Some scheme to get member-walled content and republish it? This also seems far-fetched, since the magic links get sent to the email address, and the spammers don’t seem to control the addresses they’re entering, and thus would never receive the magic links.