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Why was my email leaked?
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Re: Why was my email leaked?
#32This makes me think about why I've been receiving spam at my professional email, which I tend to use quite sparingly.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#33Holy crap Dropbox's moderators make me want to terminate my account with them.
Nathan C was doing okay. It's hard when there's a bunch of mods leaping in with irrelevant stuff.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#34The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.
The way some people do "fredsmith+amazon@gmail.com" as proof that it must be amazon that leaks their passwords has some issues.
The guy who says that he had a truly random bunch of letters as his dropbox account is probably a better indicator, but it's hard to know if the guy ever leaked it himself.
Doesn't excuse the moderators being jerks, though.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#35Holy crap Dropbox's moderators make me want to terminate my account with them.
Those mods don't work for Dropbox, they are community volunteers who've just been given mod permissions.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#36The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.
Yup, especially Chris' behaviour is a no go. I don't know how the mods are affiliated with dropbox but if they are employees I wouldn't let them have any customer contact at all.
Yeah, Chris seems a bit of prick:
"Just the fact that you listed your emails says it all."Re: Why was my email leaked?
#37> Just the fact that you listed your emails says it all.
Wow, that moderator is really professional.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#38The way the moderators handled this was pretty damn bad. Two different users tell the moderator they use UNIQUE e-mail addresses for dropbox only, and they received spam roughly at the same time and yet the moderator answers by assuming the users are idiots.
Yup, especially Chris' behaviour is a no go. I don't know how the mods are affiliated with dropbox but if they are employees I wouldn't let them have any customer contact at all.
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Re: Why was my email leaked?
#39I use a catchall and give different email addresses to everyone. I've received 3 spam emails in the past month to my dropbox account, but they aren't the only ones with problems, for example the following are the number of spams for various sites:
* 2 emails Foursquare
* 6 emails Groupon
* 6 emails Rackspace
* 25+ emails Ticketmaster
* 50+ Absolute Radio (UK Radio station)
Absolute Radio was hacked, not sure about the others.
Re: Why was my email leaked?
#40Holy crap Dropbox's moderators make me want to terminate my account with them.
Reading that thread was painful. I always use custom one-off email addresses for services I sign-up for and. When I've attempted to report disclosure of my email address I'm almost always met with major skepticism. It's maddening. I used to enjoy the reactions I'd get from store clerks and telephone reps when I give them my email address. "Oh, how you have an email address with our company name in it?" In recent year…
I recently had to sit through a customer rep read a 32 character long alphanumspecial email address out to me for "security reasons". Bet she was glad I didn't use usicode.