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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[–] 7 points 2 years ago

I have, and when it happens, the company responsible loses my business.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I have.

    No story to it, don't recall. Just killed the alias and moved on.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes. My system wasn’t compromised. They just put my address as their From: address. I got bounces.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    cant dmarc prevent this? 😳

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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Not yet, but oddly I wait in anticipation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yup, with my bank account

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • 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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Once, way back when I still used Hotmail. It's what made me stop using Hotmail.

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  • 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.

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