How to Identify Spam Traps with 99% Accuracy

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How to identify spam traps - 3 easy methods

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Enter any email address into the spam trap checker.

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Upload your email list. The email verifier will detect and identify spam traps and remove them from the list.

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Recycled spam traps

Recycled spam traps

Disposable domains

Disposable domains

Typo spam traps

Typo spam traps

Abuse emails

Abuse emails

Pristine spam traps

Pristine spam traps

Catch-all domains

Catch-all domains

Invalid emails

Invalid emails

Toxic domains

Toxic domains

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The app surpassed my expectations, establishing itself as an essential asset in my email marketing toolkit. Precise email verification and data appending features, our campaigns have experienced a remarkable boost in performance. Oh, and they have outstanding customer support (responded ASAP)

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We chose ZeroBounce after doing testing of multiple email verification companies for a client that was looking to improve bounce rates. The reason we chose ZeroBounce was because they had some of the most accurate results and were quick to offer special rates for our company. Personally, I really appreciated that their sales reps were not overly pushy and really gave us space when we were making our decisions, unlike some of the other ones. They have really good documentation on their website which educates people not only on their own software but also on email marketing in general. They also offer free name appending with their validation services. Lastly, they had a few special features that I had not seen offered on other email validationA process that determines if an email address uses valid syntax, exists on a given domain, and is configured to receive incoming email messages sites and offered 1,000+ free credits to get started.

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Every online business owner knows the importance of email marketing, but email marketing comes with a lot of hurdles. You have to struggle with maintaining the reputation of your IP, maintaining a low spam score, ensuring your email is delivered to the inbox of your subscribers, and lots more. One could easily get overwhelmed by these, luckily ZeroBounce is here to the rescue. With ZeroBounce I can filter out emails that could hurt my business, remove invalid emails, remove emails that increase my spam score, and lots more. In short, ZeroBounce has helped me enjoy zero worries with all my email marketing campaigns.

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Frequently asked questions

A spam trap is an email address created or repurposed by email and blacklist providers to identify businesses that demonstrate spammy, unsafe email-sending practices. Spam traps can either be a unique email address created for this purpose or an older email address that’s been repurposed to target spammers.

The three types of spam traps are recycled traps, typo traps, and pristine traps.

• Recycled trap - An email address that was once used by a real person but has been repurposed to become a spam trap.

• Typo trap - An email address that contains an intentional typo that’s usually obvious, i.e., misspelling the domain (gmale.com).

• Pristine trap - An email address created for the sole purpose of targeting email senders who don’t use proper email hygiene or email-sending practices.

The primary reason you may be caught in a spam trap is because you aren’t cleaning your email list. Email delivery and blacklist services spread spam traps online, whether they’re entered into your registration forms or planted in a list of email leads you acquired from an event or vendor.

A business must use best email marketing practices and verify each email address before sending a campaign. If you don’t verify your list, you’ll send an email to the spam trap and suffer consequences like high bounce rates or email blacklistings.

You can quickly get rid of spam traps by using email verification. Any time you receive a new list of email contacts, run your list through an email cleaner that’s complete with a spam trap checker. You can also use a real-time email verification APIAn API, or application programming interface, that allows an email verification tool to connect and communicate with another software application. on your registration forms to detect and block spam traps from entering your email database.

You can identify spam traps by using an email verification tool with spam trap detection. After performing the initial syntax and SMTP checksSimple Mail Transfer Protocol check. This is a relay process that determines if a mail server possesses the necessary DNS records to send and receive emails. SMTP checks also measure response times., the verifier will scan the address for known spam signatures and identify spam traps based on the associated provider.

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