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Suddenly I started receiving a bunch of scam mails (phishing). I suspect some bot or bot-net is involved, because I've received maybe a couple hundred e-mails at the time of writing, all from different (likely auto-generated) senders. With anything from 2-10 emails per day.

The scam is essentially just some phishing, all related to the same topic. I've mostly been able to mitigate it by filtering out mails containing certain keywords or phrases that show up in the scam mails. However, the mails change relatively often (about once a day) so every now and then something gets through, and I'll update my filter.

My question is really if there's any way I can figure out

  1. Where this is coming from,
  2. How they got hold of my email

So that I can try to go after the root cause / prevent other scammers from getting hold of it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

This is what I did years ago. It works great for me.

Got my own domain.

When I'm forced to register somewhere I use <their site+how much I hate them>@mydomain.com

So, when EA forced me to register an account on origin, it was [email protected].

If I see an email address start to get phishing and spam, I disable it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

You don't even need a custom domain to do this. Google, Ms and many others support aliases with a plus (+) sign in the recipient adress.

so if you got [email protected] you can freely create new aliases like [email protected], [email protected] and they will all land at [email protected]

If your address gets leaked, you can just block emails to that recipient.

I've done this for most of my accounts and it works great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gmail labels are great but they're not universal, and are easy to strip out.

A lot of sites:

  • Don't allow +'s in email addresses
  • May let your register but then not login
  • Are aware of labels and simply strip them out

I have an email address I have only ever used with labels but still get spam to the non-labeled address. Spammers and email harvesters are very much aware of this trick, so it only works on legitimate sites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I havent had a single site not working with a plus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ever had a lobotomy? doesn't mean they don't exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair, just saying i havent had issues with sites, might be europe specific.

If you are bored or a nagging ass like me, you could remind those websites that the rfc (which is the standard for email) expicitly allows plus in emails and they need to allow that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

RFCs aren't really law you know. They can deviate, it just means less compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

There are plenty of them, just wait!

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