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That was my immediate reaction upon seeing it as well, although in this case I noticed that it was sent to me+scribd@example.com, which was indeed the mail that
by shabble 14y ago
That was my immediate reaction upon seeing it as well, although in this case I noticed that it was sent to me+scribd@example.com, which was indeed the mail that I signed up with. Whilst it's mostly useful for filtering/labelling or figuring out which company sold you to a spam list, it's quite useful in this case as a basic 'yep, not just a scattershot phishing attempt' indicator.
Not foolproof, of course; the people who stole hashes & emails would be the obvious choice to attempt a quick phish, and they now have all the account emails. I wonder if I'll see an uptick in spam...
- gingerlime 14y agohehe, same here. My email address was completely randomized, and only used for scribd too (something like f9xl203js@mydomain.com), so I was very sure it was either scribd, or it fell into the wrong hands. When the email ends up in the spam folder and mark as potential phishing as well - my gut feeling was therefore that my email was indeed leaked. The irony is that the email itself was generated by scribd itself, and not by any spammers.