Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by cyral on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:14PM (#26287312)

It will be interesting to see if these fake contacts show up in a leak somewhere someday. Almost like how people do [email protected], we could create similarly fake contacts to see who is selling or leaking data.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by shervinafshar on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:20PM (#26287366)

*@myname.name

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by _0ffh on Saturday February 27, 2021 @06:51PM (#26289293)

Yeah I've been using [email protected] for ages to track who's sold or fumbled my data. Since haveibeenpwned I can even approximately separate the two groups. Surprisingly up to now nearly all incidents (that I know of) have been breaches. Not that it makes it any better.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by atleta on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:27PM (#26289844)

Same here. Though people usually give me weird looks when I do this IRL and ask me "Is your email address really [email protected]"?

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by aylons on Saturday February 27, 2021 @09:36PM (#26290146)

I had these weird looks, and I even got engaged in a nice conversation with an employee at a t-mobile store, but some people don't even bat an eye.

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