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Re:Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad? by ycombinatrix on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:45PM (#49929367)
Doesn't explain why the email was in German.
Re:Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad? by montroser on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:41AM (#49929909)
Could very well be apophenia. Germany was just one of the countries visited, and we all get spam in a variety of languages all the time, including German.
Re:Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad? by ycombinatrix on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:03PM (#49940428)
I don't get spam from a variety of languages.

The only foreign language spam I got was from Pokemon Go after I played it while visiting France & Spain. I received French and Spanish emails from them for years.

Re:Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad? by thatonehack on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:35PM (#49940909)
I've never received a spam email in German in my entire life. This spam email actually looks to be a legitimate email as after translating it the contents were basically to verify the email address. I don't think I've ever received an email in another language in my entire life and certainly not while I've been at Fastmail (10+ years).