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Reposting from https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=30980625 tl;dr: Used a burner email signing up for Comcast Xfinity and have been constantly receiving phishing emails on that address. (Last one was this morning.)
I made some noise on Reddit about the Splunk one and I didn't receive anything else after a quick exchange with them, I reported the SublimeText one but a couple of years later I got other spam to this address, and I didn't bother doing anything with the Canva one.
I have a separate email account for all the trivial and unimportant website sign-ups (which I can mostly ignore since it's nothing critical), but my mail account was only used for "higher risk" accounts. I assume it was a leak of some sort (insurance or utilities).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
HAHAHA Same but it was in the store of Sixt (a european car renting firm)
This has happened to me too, though not at Sixt. "Do you work for our company?"
Historically though my intention was to track who sold my email address and combat spam. It worked great.
The most notable one was the address I registered with ISC2 when signing up to take (and pass) the CISSP in 2002. The unique address I gave ISC2 and only ISC2 in 2002 was used to send spam and scam email not long after.
It was a fairly common occurance in the early/mid-2000's to receive spam where I registered addresses. These days it seems to happen much less.
I mostly use one single address, but I can tell you exactly where all the spam comes from: idiots whose name is the same as mine. They give my address as if it belonged to them. Probably they created addresses like narag33@server and they believe that it's narag@server instead. So not only I receive all the spam from dubious sites that they suscribed to, but also their legitimate mail from lists and friends. My names…