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Most of the "wrong" email I get is genuine spam but it tends to be from companies I signed up for that have since gone out of business and sold my address to spammers, or companies that have had a data breach (naturally).
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If the only identifier on the account is your email address then: - The account effectively belongs to you anyway. - The person who created it isn't going to be able to recover it if they lose their password, better they know about this sooner than later by you locking them out.
I don't think the first one is actually obvious. An account was set up. It is on Twitch's computers, and it has a password designed to keep me out. Twitch thinks they have allowed in some other person (who's agreed to their licensing agreements, etc). It seems to me that I'd be circumventing their account system using the fact that I happen to control the password recovery mechanism. I mean this is essentially silly,…
It was pretty concerning that someone in that chain is selling my personal info. The spam wasn't commercial spam - it was Nigerian prince stuff, crypto scams, etc.
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…
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I don't think the first one is actually obvious. An account was set up. It is on Twitch's computers, and it has a password designed to keep me out. Twitch thinks they have allowed in some other person (who's agreed to their licensing agreements, etc). It seems to me that I'd be circumventing their account system using the fact that I happen to control the password recovery mechanism. I mean this is essentially silly,…
My thinking on this is that if twitch don’t verify your email before creating the account then that’s on them.
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…
> where all the spam comes from The problem is the word spam. What you describe, misdirected mail from completely legal businesses is not really spam, even if it is junk for you personally. There is aggressive marketing of very vaguely related products you have actually registered for. There is marketing of illegal products mostly using harvested addresses. There is phishing often using stolen addresses. If you want…
Those persons give my address all over the place. Don't you understand the implication?
Also using unverified addresses by Paypal and other assholes is irresponsible and honestly I can't see why it isn't spam.
Edit: Add Netflix to the assholes list. I've just reset the password for another idiot.
And I noticed that the amount of spam had increased after I emailed a recruiter from an IT recruitment consultancy.
After a while, e-mails from recruiters from other companies started coming in. Some were terribly persistent. And then outright spam began.
I closed the old account and am using a different one.
For work purposes, I use a separate domain name and Email Forwarding by Cloudflare. Mail is routed to the personal inbox of a new Gmail account. Google allows me to send outgoing email from the domain through their SMTP servers. However, sometimes they end up in the recipients' spam boxes, probably because of the MTA chain.
I actively use SimpleLogin in cases when I register on a new website when I am not sure about its security in terms of storing user data or possible mailing lists.
In addition, I own a free domain where Email Forwarding is set up as Catch All with sending to Protonmail. It cut the time to manage unwanted emails almost to zero.
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This . It's relentless. Both email and SMS spam.
With SMS, you can reply with STOP and it should take you off that list. Repeat for a few campaigns and hopefully you are done for that election cycle and get less/none in the next cycle.