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> The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies. Yes, but legitimate companies leak data now and then. I get metric tons of sp
by crizzlenizzle 4y ago
> The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies.
Yes, but legitimate companies leak data now and then. I get metric tons of spam to dropbox@, linkedin@, myspace@, moneybookers@, etc.
- stevekemp 4y agoWhen I used wildcard support I got spam to : linkedin@steve.org.uk facebook@steve.org.uk So I'd be tempted to think that my address had been leaked from there, but I also got other messages sent to addresses like: admin@steve.org.uk sales@steve.org.uk support@steve.org.uk In the end I figured that I was just dictionary-attack, and optimistic senders, and I could never be sure that a particular company had actually leaked an address. These days I just give steve/at/steve.fi to everybody (I moved countries, hence the new TLD). I ported over all the aliases that had received email in the past five years and started rejecting unknown local-parts. That stopped badbots from mailing things that seemed like poorly-scraped message-ids "blah-blah-1234@steve.org.uk".