How spam trap removal software protects your mailing list

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How spam trap removal software protects your
mailing list
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• Referred to as honeypots, spam traps are a type
  of email used by ISPs and some organizations to
  identify and catch malicious senders. Even
  harmless and legal senders, like you, can find
  yourself having spam traps on your mailing list.
  Using spam trap removal software or services is
  the best way to prevent and delete these unwanted
  email addresses from your list.

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• Curious about how spam traps end upon in your
  mailing lists?
• Here are the reasons
• Pristine traps
• These are email addresses posted on some public
  web sites, yet concealed to regular user. The
  only ones who can discover and market those email
  addresses are the users who make use of illegal
  collection procedures, such as scraping the
  internet for anything that appears like an email
  address. If you acquired these addresses by
  scraping them from web pages or purchased a
  list, you may come with a pristine spam trap.

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• Recycled traps
• Recycled spam traps are frequently domain
  registrations or email addresses that used to be
  valid yet have been reused to serve as trapping
  spam. Some typical samples are role addresses
  (info_at_, sales_at_, support _at_) or email addresses of
  personnels who are not working in that company.
• The recycled spam trap usually isnt as dangerous
  as the pristine spam trap, yet will continue to
  induce issue to your sending reputation gradually.

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• Tips for managing your subscriber list
• Dont purchase an email list
• Be aware of where your list came from in case you
  purchased one from a person. You dont know if
  the email addresses were being accumulated the
  proper way or illegally, so there is a fair
  chance you are investing in spam traps. Dont put
  your sender reputation in jeopardy..

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• Use double-opt in
• Making use of double-opt, you can guarantee that
  an email address comes from an actual person.
  This is a highly effective way to capture typos
  as well as fake email addresses that might be
  spam traps.
• Validate and check new email addresses
• Use an address validation tool and spam trap
  cleaning service to capture inaccuracies and
  non-existing email addresses before and after it
  lands on your mailing lists.

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