Hi Kim, yes they are real orders, they supply credit card information and the orders are going out to these people.
Most of the incorrect email addresses they supply can be corrected, ie noticable mistakes in the spelling of their mail supplier, a few (genuine orders) have email addresses that are undeliverable (i get their welcome and order confirmation bounce to me).
A few of these errors are down to lack of knowledge on the structure of email addresses with some people adding www. before their email address
I was just after a way like what you have when you sign up for a forum to check that the email by sending a comfirmation to it
The reason for all this, is, all the people wishing to receive a newsletter we are sending through some mailing software and the amount of invalid email addresses are creating temporary bans with service providers
Rob