That's a use case for aliases, catching if any company or service gives out your email to be abused by advertisers and whatnot. I tried looking for stories but didn't find any, I wonder if you have any to share.
That's a use case for aliases, catching if any company or service gives out your email to be abused by advertisers and whatnot. I tried looking for stories but didn't find any, I wonder if you have any to share.
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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
I have, and when it happens, the company responsible loses my business.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Yes. My system wasn’t compromised. They just put my address as their From: address. I got bounces.
birdcat@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
cant dmarc prevent this? 😳
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It was a long time ago.
birdcat@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
but a strict dmarc can prevent it right... paranoid now 😅
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
As long as the recipient denies spoofed From: addresses, yes. There are still mail services out there that let spoofed email in.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
I have.
No story to it, don't recall. Just killed the alias and moved on.
Geekocracy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I got a pump and dump scam from an alias that I only used for my brokerage account. They assured me it wasn't them. A week later they publicly announced that they were hacked.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
This happened with me and Robinhood.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y
Not yet, but oddly I wait in anticipation.
toaster@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
Yep! Only about twice in several years though. Sometimes it's the same company that started up or bough another company and gave your email without telling you.
dtc@lemmy.pt · 2 pts · 2y
I've been using email aliases for a few years now, but all spam I get is addressed to my main email (which admittedly is readily available on my website). Seems like no one has sold my email address yet
Tazerface@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
hate2bme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah, sure. We believe you "Mr. Lube" is an auto service shop.
Tazerface@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2y
Yup, with my bank account
DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Disney
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Not that I am aware of. Though one time someone made a Facebook account using my email. I was able to log in by requesting a password reset, then I posted a status message (or whatever) that said "Get your own goddamn email" and then changed to the password to gibberish and filed a account deletion request.
hperrin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I have a few times. I made an email service that only uses aliases called Port87. Now I can just block the alias when it starts to get spam.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah, but it's mostly the ones you'd expect.
It generally wasn't real known brands. They just spam you with their own nonsense.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 2y
Once, way back when I still used Hotmail. It's what made me stop using Hotmail.