I should curate a list. Most recently: Venmo. I expect news about a data breach soon. Before that: epik.
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?
#202Just as a heads up, Zillow will ban your account if you use zillow@domain for violating their terms. Happened to me in March 2021.
Did this happen instantly? I just now created an account. So far nothing happened. Maybe this is a ploy to get people to sign up.
Not OP, but the terms state this under sec. 5:
"BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE NOT TO: [...] use any of the Zillow Companies’ trademarks as part of your screen name or email address on the Services;"
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#203I 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…
This has been my experience too. I have @gmail since 2004, and have for the last decade at least used a separate domain for all my accounts.
I haven't noticed many leaks/sales at all of my specific account addresses. I get almost all my spam on my regular gmail, and promotions for companies that my namesakes have signed up for, left my email at a store, etc.
I have identified several people from the variety of emails I get, including work/school/personal.
> But some of the companies responsible of the subscriptions, like Paypal, are assholes. They allow the creation of accounts without verifying the email, then refuse to admit it's their problem and do something about it.
This is my absolute biggest gripe. Someone signed up for AT&T using my email. I contacted their support on facebook, and even after explaining the whole issue they asked my for my phone number, and recommended I call their support. I'm not even in the country. They stopped responding when I pointed that out.
While I want to trash AT&T (deservedly), they're unfortunately not alone in that behavior.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#204I 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…
Same with me-- someone used my email to register for Airtel India, and I started getting his bills. Airtel have a complaint/abuse email and I told them about the mistake-- there was a lot of "hoo-hah" but nothing happened.
The bills are in encrypted pdf-- but the encryption is trivial to remove. I looked at the bills, its someone with a name similar to mine, just one letter different. I emailed the real person, telling him he had used my email, but got no reply.
I just press spam now, and the emails have stopped coming to my inbox. But I still get the emails 6-7 years later. Its mind boggling as how a) Airtel never confirmed the email b) Havent stopped sending even though they've been going to spam for years now
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#205I get a ton of spam on my Amazon email. I assume this is via some sellers getting it as part of the return process.
I just rotate the mail every six month and drop the old ones into a auto delete rule.
Another is the mail used in domain registries but it’s low volume
The worst offenders are mailing lists I subscribed that fail to respect unsubscribing. I find the smaller they are the worse they are. So many just re-add the mail six months later. There I have a rather fun mail rule.
Any mail from their domain gets an auto reply with an explanation that this isn’t cool, with every support, admin, sales mail I could think of in cc. It includes a list of all the times they mailed me and all the times I asked them to unsubscribe in a list, handily auto generated my a node-red flow.
Yes, it’s pedantic, No I feel no shame.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#206My "linkedin@mydomain.com" email gets a LOT of traffic at the moment - I suspect that was a breach rather than being sold on (but that's being charitable).
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#207Question: can you recommend any service to quickly create new accounts, but redirect them to my main one?
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#208My "linkedin@mydomain.com" email gets a LOT of traffic at the moment - I suspect that was a breach rather than being sold on (but that's being charitable).
LinkedIn sells all your data via their sales navigator tool. The more you pay, the more data you can get.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#209I 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…
I was getting some dude's email for about 7 years. Started with newsletters and discussion threads for a journalism guild and a teacher's union. I found that amusing and left it, but one day emailed whoever was in charge and let them know I'm not the intended recipient. Stopped for a while and then it started again and I ignored it. But in the last few years I started getting hotel reservations, golf course membershi…
> I was getting some dude's email for about 7 years. Started with newsletters and discussion threads for a journalism guild and a teacher's union. I found that amusing and left it, but one day emailed whoever was in charge and let them know I'm not the intended recipient. Stopped for a while and then it started again and I ignored it.
I had a similar experience, funnily enough golf course memberships too. Doing minimal OSI work on the numerous emails I found the guy on facebook and friended him (accepted due to same surname I assume). I remember saying something like:
"Hi, I noticed you just signed up for an Epic Games account, and you happened to use my email address @gmail. Would you mind not doing that, please?"
He responded that I was a creep and that it was his email, and proceeded to block me. I mean he might've been right on the former, but patently wrong on the latter.
Re: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
#210I get a ton of spam on my Amazon email. I assume this is via some sellers getting it as part of the return process. I just rotate the mail every six month and drop the old ones into a auto delete rule. Another is the mail used in domain registries but it’s low volume The worst offenders are mailing lists I subscribed that fail to respect unsubscribing. I find the smaller they are the worse they are. So many just re-a…
I would say you are a hero – finally imposing a “cost“ on people who are not prioritizing unsubscribe functionality. As someone who just quietly blocks, I am happy to free ride on your crusade :-)