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Scammers on the other hand contact me on all my emails that have leaked/compromised. Latest being xfinity.
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I deal with the same problem with fullname@gmail. My name is very common, surprisingly so if you're not Italian. I get emails for: * A Joe who runs a lego engineering team at his high school * A Joe who goes to bible study in Utah * A Joe who is building a house in Victoria Australia (I'm so familiar with him/others screwing up his email that I can forward it to him and his wife easily.
In my personal metaverse, I'm really into falconry (I've ordered several leather falcon hoods), I have a commercial truckers license, I'm part of a pushy childrens' soccer league, and am eagerly planning a trip to the holy land. I did get an invite from one of them to play golf together in Wales.
Your targetted ads must be really interesting :-)
The silver lining is, of course, that no one has yet built an accurate profile of you ...
Just as a heads up, Zillow will ban your account if you use zillow@domain for violating their terms. Happened to me in March 2021.
I'm quite sure the reason will be that this service emails others on "your behalf" and probably does something like placing your email address in the "From" field or in the body of correspondence. I assume they are concerned about phishing or catfishing emails purporting to be from the service.
This doesn't appear to be an adequate solution to the problem.
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…
I got my gmail account early and was able to get my first name at gmail.com. My name is fairly popular in my part of the world and everyone who has it uses my email address as a throwaway since they actually authenticate using a phone number. I have matrimonials, visa applications, leave applications, uber accounts, SaaS subscriptions, porn subscriptions, random newsletters and what not. My gmail account is all but u…
Same here. But my first name is so unusual that I have literally not found anyone else on the internet with my first name. Any and all searches for my first name (and nothing else) have results that point to me.
I have an email address that I've only used for official things, and it was used by an employer as my contact email for pension savings with Santander.
I've had the address for 10+ years and never gotten spam. The same day I got an email from Santander about being signed up for pension there I started getting lots of spam emails.
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…
(The last one of the above I replied to - it was an order for a rifle scope. I sent what I thought was an obvious joke email back asking whether it'd help me hit my neighbours' puppy at a mile range. The gun shop replied back suggesting an alternative scope... Moral: never apply UK style humour to US situations, especially not about guns...)
My "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.
I do get a lot of business spam to other email addresses I have on LinkedIn but that's all vaguely relevant (no I don't want a website building, nor am I interested in video marketing).
Question: can you recommend any service to quickly create new accounts, but redirect them to my main one?
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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;"
Just 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.