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The worse constant spam I've ever seen, some of it use legit expensive mail services, and a lot of it doesn't land in my spam folder.
I have another email that's put publicly in a website and it gets crawled, and I get no spam from it, just legit emails that are probably automated from people that wanna do business.
The worst was when spammers got ahold of my email from a hotel chain and would add random letters to the username. So, for instance, the email address I provided to the hotel chain was something like hotelchain-jawns@example.com, and the spammers would send to aaahotelchain-jawnsaaa@example.com, bbbhotelchain-jawnsbbb@example.com, etc.
That forced me to stop using a catch-all and only accept usernames that conformed to a certain format.
I use a different email for everything so I have been waiting very patiently for this and guess what… so far no one. Absolutely no one. And I've been using this system for over 5 years now
…except for single email with a google docs link that got sent to cs@mydomain. I don’t know what I used cs@ for. I don’t have any other emails to that address. Very odd.
I used to. Stopped doing it as it was too much hassle to keep track of, but the biggest spammers were tech recruiters. I think some of them post fake jobs just so they can harvest your email address when you apply. Then that email address gets passed around on various lists for years.
Also not to say this is how all recruiters work. I've spent enough time in the industry to know in 2 minutes or less if I'm talking to a decent recruiter.
In particular recruiters (including from 1 faang) have picked up the gravatar breach, and after some gdpr digging I've found a few of the unscrupulous vendors that laundered the breach data into the recruiter spam industry
Annoyingly, park mobile. Their emails were leaked, now I get parkmobile@foo.com emails quite often. https://considertheconsumer.com/data-breaches/parkmobile-dat... they suck.
They were breached.