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@JaredBusch said in Spam:
Umm, yes it is.
His personal domain is also well known as one would assume it is used elsewhere for other things.
Spammers send dictionary attacks out.
I don't think so. I've had this domain for about ten years and I can't ever remember having spam sent as a dictionary account (or to my other domains). The chances of the first dictionary attack also being the name of a forum I post on must be billions to one.
I get spam from breaches. Mostly to [email protected] and [email protected] (Pitchfork is a big music site).
The only other explanation I can think of is that I originally didn't hide my e-mail address on here.
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@aaronstuder said in Spam:
@JaredBusch Interesting. I have a catch-all and I get very little SPAM.
There are many factors. And sometimes just random. You have a catch all with no SPAM filter? When I've had a catchall, it gets a LOT.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Spam:
The only other explanation I can think of is that I originally didn't hide my e-mail address on here.
I think that it is always and always has been hidden by default. I'm not 100% sure on that, but I'm pretty sure. A breach is more likely than that, I'd guess.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Spam:
I get spam from breaches. Mostly to [email protected] and [email protected] (Pitchfork is a big music site).
So you create new email addresses for every service you use [email protected] and think it's incredibly unlikely that you're getting spam?
That doesn't make a ton of sense to me. To me it would seem more likely that your domain is now "known" because of the number of people accessing your site, and thus spammers targeted you.
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I use a custom domain purely for e-mail. There is no site and so no easy way for the domain to be known. A google search for the domain returns nothing.
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Just because there is no site, doesn't mean a bot can't search the registered domain list...
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Technically, yes. But in reality, no way.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spam:
@aaronstuder said in Spam:
@JaredBusch Interesting. I have a catch-all and I get very little SPAM.
There are many factors. And sometimes just random. You have a catch all with no SPAM filter? When I've had a catchall, it gets a LOT.
Exactly - you have a private domain name and a catchall, but it's not loaded with spam from the catch all with all kinds of random crap? That seems so unlikely as to be unbelievable.
My spam filter, while not seeing a dictionary worth of bad addresses, definitely sees all kinds of random crap for names daily.
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@Carnival-Boy thanks for reporting this!
