Editing Honeypot (computing) (section)

=== Email trap ===
{{Main|Spamtrap}}
An email address that is not used for any other purpose than to receive spam can also be considered a spam honeypot. Compared with the term "[[spamtrap]]", the term "honeypot" might be more suitable for systems and techniques that are used to detect or counterattack probes. With a spamtrap, spam arrives at its destination "legitimately"—exactly as non-spam email would arrive.

An amalgam of these techniques is [[Project Honey Pot]], a distributed, open-source project that uses honeypot pages installed on websites around the world. These honeypot pages disseminate uniquely tagged spamtrap email addresses and [[spammers]] can then be tracked—the corresponding spam mail is subsequently sent to these spamtrap e-mail addresses.<ref>{{Cite news |title=What is a honeypot? |url=https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/security/honeypots-it-security-through-decoy-programs/ |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=IONOS Digital Guide |date=8 August 2017 |language=en}}</ref>