I was purchasing a car at local Honda dealership and the salesman refused to believe that my email address was honda@mydomain.com. He just insisted that I shoul

I was purchasing a car at local Honda dealership and the salesman refused to believe that my email address was honda@mydomain.com. He just insisted that I should tell him my "real" email address. If it happens today, I would just walk away. But back then I was a new grad who just got a new job and really wanted a new car in a new city, so I said "fine, does mylastname@mydomain.com sound more legit?" He was ok with that. I brought the car back home, and set a new inbox rule that blocks all emails to mylastname@mydomain.com. Because I can't think of a reason to use mylastname@mydomain.com in any cases. I have never heard anything from Honda ever again. I once got a text message from an agent after a dealership visit, he asked me why I just couldn't give him a good feedback since he worked so hard and I seemed to be happy with the result. I was like "sorry, but for some reason I can't receive emails from Honda, including after-visit survey". > The truth is no one really sells your email – at least no legitimate companies. Speaking of this, I actually did sometimes catch someone sold or leaked my email addresses. They usually came from spam emails with "Undisclosed recipients" that I had to dig into headers to find out which one of my addresses was leaked. Most of addresses used in spams are the ones I shared with individual/small business and I would like to believe that they were not intentional. The only legit, big company that sold/leaked my email was Docker. I applied for a new job with docker@mydomain.com and a year later a bunch of recruiting spams came to me via that address. Although it was possible that it's just that particular recruiter forgot to shred my resume after I rejected their interview invite.