Hey Jaroslaw Rafa,

On 27.03.25 21:55, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote:
> However I wonder - and here I'm looking for your opinion - what can be a
> possible gain for the attacker from such an attack? The form does not have
> any field to enter own information that could be passed to the recipient -
> just login, password and email - so all the recipient gets is a standard
> message saying that someone registered an account named XYZ on my website
> using their email address, and if they want to confirm it, they should click
> the link, otherwise do nothing and the registration will expire in 24 hours. 
> How can anyone benefit from spamming people with such messages?

Do that on a few hundred different sites with the same addresses and you
can annoy the heck out of someone.

Regards,
Thomas Walter

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