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Module 5 · Lesson 17 of 37

Spam Trap Types & Avoidance

Part of The Complete Email Deliverability Course — List Hygiene & Management.

🍯 Pristine (Honeypot) Traps:

  • Fake addresses that never belonged to real people
  • Created by ISPs and blocklist operators
  • Impact: Immediate blocklisting
  • Avoidance: Never purchase or scrape email lists

♻️ Recycled Traps:

  • Abandoned addresses reactivated after 12+ months
  • Key insight: The address hard bounces before becoming a trap
  • If you removed bounces promptly, you'd never hit one

⌨️ Typo Traps:

  • Common misspellings: gmial.com, yaho.com, hotnail.com, .con
  • Avoidance: Real-time validation, autocomplete suggestions, DOI

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