Send a message to it. If you receive a failure, notice then either the address was fake or the account was deleted.
If you saw the address in question in the "From" field from a spam email, the address was spoofed. The spammer inserted it in the email header in order to hide the true origin of the message. Even if the address is valid, the spam email didn't come from it.
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Send a message to it. If you receive a failure, notice then either the address was fake or the account was deleted.
If you saw the address in question in the "From" field from a spam email, the address was spoofed. The spammer inserted it in the email header in order to hide the true origin of the message. Even if the address is valid, the spam email didn't come from it.