Re:Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast
by notwhereyouare on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:09PM
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there was a thread the other day that people felt that wasn't a good indicator. Because people might take the list from say adobe, and filter out anything with adobe in the email
Re:Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast
by jbverschoor on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:29PM
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Hello, my name is Adobe Meta Apple Netflix Amazon Microsoft. How may I help you?
Re:Tell HN: Spammed by a Hacker News Enthusiast
by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:02PM
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If they filtered out "adobe" then all that would be left is "@mydomain.com", which isn't a valid e-mail address.
Starting in 2003 and up until 2016, I used a catch-all e-mail address and would sign up for everything using a custom e-mail address. I wouldn't even do in the form of "[email protected]", I'd just do "[email protected]".
The only spam e-mails I got that were e-mail addresses I used were from a couple shady cryptocurrency mining pools, a forum that got hacked, and the e-mail address I used on USENET. I also got spam sent to <random hex digits>@mydomain and lots of <two random dictionary words>@mydomain.
Knowing how much spam came from my USENET e-mail address (which I eventually changed and black-holed), I wonder how many spammers are scraping usernames from reddit and just spamming [email protected].