13 sats \ 8 replies \ @freetx 12 Jul \ on: AT&T says criminals stole records of 'nearly all' customers in new data breach security
One of the benefits of running your own mail server, is I can (on the fly) assign custom email addresses for my account. So I have a username.att@domain.com for my ATT accound. In the past 2 months I now regularly get phishing emails sent to my ATT email....
You can also do this with most(?) email providers by appending a
+name like freetx+att@gmail.com. Some apps probably don’t allow this, but many doreply
wow, thanks. just tested with my gmail and it worked. but what to do with such single-use emails? report to the police everyone who sold/leaked my email address? I doubt they care.
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It’s more for awareness so you know who leaked your info
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if the spammers are smart, they'll use the part before + ))
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Spammers are dummies 99% of the time lol
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Good call
I add periods … to Gmail address
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Oh yea you can do that too
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Clever
Smart
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