Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: on Nostr: One of the things I find fascinating about the spammers targeting the fediverse is ...

One of the things I find fascinating about the spammers targeting the fediverse is that they are almost exclusively using gmail.com email addresses, at least the ones signing up on Infosec.exchange. The last time I tried to create a gmail account, it was a PITA, required a cell phone number, etc.

Did Google somehow make it really easy to automatically create gmail accounts?

Edit: before people tell me to “just block gmail accounts”, gmail is far far far and away the number one email domain used by legitimate accounts, so I won’t be doing that.