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From their q&a:
gitspamdum is a bot, I just created a fake account and bid for 999 trillions, no verification were requested in the whole process and 1 nanosecond later gitspamdum bid after me, I tried this twice, my only purpose was to expose the absurdity of the whole thing, if Proton really take this thing seriously please just cancel all auctions and place them in a serious website
Look at that. An email address that will be instantly added to every spammers list. And they know the owner has money too.
And they know the owner has money too.
Not after spending 50 mil on it
Anyone willing to spend $50m on an email address probably has more money than sense.
Until they spend 50 mil on an email address, then they have an equal amount of both.
I bid 5
Best I can do is $3.50.
It's up to $100m. No shot those bids are legit.
EDIT: Looks like they cleaned up the fraudulent bids. Down to $15k which seems much more... possible.