Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?

Re:Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who s... by richrichardsson on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:31AM (#31119725)

I got sent a ton of (quite private) PII from T-Mobile in Holland for some poor schmuck who can't understand that his email address is not [email protected], or alternatively isn't actually putting an email address and some other idiot is deciding, "This guy is called Adrian Byss, his email is probably [email protected]". I've had the email [email protected]* since not long after gmail became available to the public. If I had less scruples I could easily have stolen this man's identity with the amount of information they sent.

* obviously this is not my email address, but it demonstrates how the situation arose.

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Re:Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who s... by lbotos on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:22AM (#31120315)

good theory, but dots don't matter in gmail addresses: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

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Re:Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who s... by garbagetime on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:22AM (#31120744)

I don't think that contradicts your parent comment's theory

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Re:Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who s... by lbotos on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:52AM (#31121000)

On re-reading, you are right!

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