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It happens about once a year for the 15 years I've had my emails set up that way, and as far as I can tell, 90% of it has been hacked systems rather than sales.
by jawns 5y ago
It happens about once a year for the 15 years I've had my emails set up that way, and as far as I can tell, 90% of it has been hacked systems rather than sales.
The worst was when spammers got ahold of my email from a hotel chain and would add random letters to the username. So, for instance, the email address I provided to the hotel chain was something like hotelchain-jawns@example.com, and the spammers would send to aaahotelchain-jawnsaaa@example.com, bbbhotelchain-jawnsbbb@example.com, etc.
That forced me to stop using a catch-all and only accept usernames that conformed to a certain format.
- ascar 5y agoSounds like pattern based blocking would have been a nice feature in that case.
- stevekemp 5y agoThat's interesting, I wonder why they decided adding random letters? It reminds me that I used to get a bunch of spam to completely bogus addresses for example: E1iusbp-00017V-NM@steve.org.uk It took me a while, but I realized that these were Message-ID headers that were being used as email-addresses, I just assumed there were some badly written scrapers out there, treating "blah@blah" as an email address and harvesting all such matches.