There are two main types of spam traps: Pristine Spam Traps: these are email addresses that have never been used for email communication. They are set up by ESPs and anti-spam organizations to catch spammers who are scraping email addresses from websites. Recycled Spam Traps: these are email...
A Spam Trap is an email address created by Spam Filters or one of the major ISPs (Yahoo, Gmail, Comcast, etc.) for the purpose of identifying email blasts. Essentially, if you're sending email to one of these addresses, then you're sending email blasts to people that haven't opted-...