Krebs recently had an article on email aliases[1], and one thing I found interesting is the report that spam list managers actively remove obvious aliases compl

Krebs recently had an article on email aliases[1], and one thing I found interesting is the report that spam list managers actively remove obvious aliases completely because those addresses are low quality (they want to sell their lists, so they promote that their lists are higher quality) plus the aliases can result in being the first tip that a database has been leaked. I've had obvious aliases at a number of compromised databases and so far none of those generate any spam. In fact, recently I received an email from some white hat that my address was part of a site that has been hacked twice and the site-owners have not reported it, so the white hat was sending out email blasts to tell people. I've never been spammed to that address. Where I've seen one alias spread when it somehow ended up on some political list. A non-political blogger's newsletter address has spread from here to kingdom come and I suspect that the blogger had someone else managing the sending of that newsletter who decided to borrow the list, and the people he gave it to decided to do some more sharing. [1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/the-security-pros-and-cons-of-using-email-aliases/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/the-security-pros-and-co...