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Ask HN: Site selling my email address... anything I can do?
Hi all,
I registered a while back for corporate perks (http://www.corporateperks.com/), another site which claims to use collective bargaining based on what employer you work for.
I removed my account shortly since I learned they didn't have anything for Ireland. Ever since, I am getting few advertisement emails from some third parties (US specific). Now, I have a strong reason to believe they sold my id to spammers, since there we only 2 websites who knew it (other being facebook). + I never shared my email to any forum etc... And from the nature spam emails (mainly sent to entice managers et al), I can be fairly sure that it www.corporateperks.com.
I am really annoyed by that, thanks to my spam-intolerantness. Is there anyway I can stop this, fight back?
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThe same thing happened to me with emusic. Despite searching for a time I came up with no effective retribution, retaliation, or even limiting action. That email address is now useless and permanently spam-binned. The only use I do have for it is as a honey-trap - any email similar to something sent to the emusic address is certainly spam. But good luck - I hope you find something.
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- madhouse 16y agoWhile it probably won't help you now, a tip for the future: register with a 'throw-away' email address. I usually use username+website@example.com - and once I unsubscribe or delete my registration, I just mark everything coming to username+website@ as spam. (gmail supports the + notation, as do quite a few others)