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Have you ever caught a marketing or spam email sent using one of your email aliases? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've caught a few, usually the email gets leaked in a data breach (ie. Adobe got breached a while back, so I just block all email to [email protected]). Surprisingly I don't really catch a lot of companies reselling mailing lists, it's mostly data breaches that you can find on haveibeenpwned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Somehow my Xfinity alias I used last year (before I escaped them, thank god) was stolen and it gets spam from time to time. Xfinity hasn't reported a breach, but somehow it's the only one I've caught so far.