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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 1 points 3 months ago

Really? For me rspamd blocks at least 15 spam emails a day, usually from China or Russia. An additional 2-3 go to the junk folder, and some still slip through the cracks especially if it's coming from a gmail address.

But it could be as simple as it being because my email is publicly available (github, my website, etc.) so scrapers are picking it up.