I have been receiving tons of lame sellers from @gmail.com email addresses trying to sell things like toenail clippers. Emails were sent to the email address I used to sign up for hired.com.
Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
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Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#32This was years ago, but I once contacted Barracuda to inquire about buying one of their Spam Firewalls. I used "myname-barracuda@mydomain". Before I even got a response from the salesperson, I got a spam e-mail to that address. Then I got a response from the salesperson. I asked if he knew that I had started getting spam to the e-mail address that only they had, and he said there was no way that was possible. I figur…
Sounds more like they were trying to convince you of the need for a spam firewall :)
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#33This was years ago, but I once contacted Barracuda to inquire about buying one of their Spam Firewalls. I used "myname-barracuda@mydomain". Before I even got a response from the salesperson, I got a spam e-mail to that address. Then I got a response from the salesperson. I asked if he knew that I had started getting spam to the e-mail address that only they had, and he said there was no way that was possible. I figur…
Sounds more like they were trying to convince you of the need for a spam firewall :)
Nice inbox you have there... be a shame if it filled up with spam...
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#34Oregon DMV
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#35When my kids were young, I set them up with two emails addresses: one for emailing friends, the other for emailing businesses. The assumption was this would protect their personal friend emails from spam. The reality was by the time they were older teens almost all the spam they received came in on their personal friend emails and almost none of it came on their commercial-use addresses. My assessment was businesses…
This has been my experience also. Companies do pretty well, random forums get scraped and friends hit “upload my contacts” on every scketchy app they Download.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#36I have been receiving tons of lame sellers from @gmail.com email addresses trying to sell things like toenail clippers. Emails were sent to the email address I used to sign up for hired.com.
I get the same thing, along with spam for t-shirts. Lots of spam coming directly from GCP.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#37Since 2016 I’ve given out 422 unique addresses in the form @example.com, and so far zero messages have come in from an unexpected sender. I don’t know whether to feel reassured, or just lucky.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#38So far, the one that sticks out in my spam bin is Nordstrom
https://i.imgur.com/DA8njVs.png
(I changed the numbers around, but the point stands)
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#39Ah, finally, my time to shine. Amazingly - not too many, given that I use hundreds of unique emails. Tbh this confuses the hell out of people when I give a CSR at AcmeBoutique the address AcmeBoutique@myowndomain.com
The offenders that I remember:
- Men’s Health magazine
- local gym
- online flower shop
- agency that at the time handled visa applications for a local Indian consulate
- couple of infoproducts from Producthunt (think “free e-book of 10 most effective cloud practices” type of stuff) gave my email without consent to other sellers of infoproducts.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#40I used to. Stopped doing it as it was too much hassle to keep track of, but the biggest spammers were tech recruiters. I think some of them post fake jobs just so they can harvest your email address when you apply. Then that email address gets passed around on various lists for years.
"I used to. Stopped doing it as it was too much hassle to keep track of ..."
Can you describe what it is you need to keep track of ?
I imagine giving out servicename@domain.com and if you get spam on that pseudonym you just block it in procmail or smtpd.conf or (whatever you do in gmail).
Right ?