French government provides email addresses to political candidates
Spamhaus reported that the government of France provides lists of email addresses to French political candidates to be used when sending campaign emails. The list reportedly provided by the government contained spamtrap email addresses that are used by Spamhaus for their anti-spam operations. These emails could not be enrolled to this list voluntarily and do not belong to French voters. It seems that these lists might have been provided directly to the candidates.
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