explanade
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Have a bunch of spam and phishing attempts (supposedly from Home Depot, Skype and other known brands but the return address is random) on the Junk Mail folder of OS X Mail.
A lot of these are recent.
The thing is, it's coming to the email address I used to register at ER several years ago.
I've not used that address anywhere else, as far as I know.
And for most of the time, going on at least 5-6 years, the main traffic was from ER, especially forum thread notifications. There were one or two spam emails during this time every couple of weeks.
But now, the activity is way up.
I will have to admit though that it's a recognizable word from a popular email provider. So it could have been discovered by spammers through brute force searching.
But like I said, a lot of the spam traffic is recent.
Anyone else seeing anything similar on the email address they used for ER?
A lot of these are recent.
The thing is, it's coming to the email address I used to register at ER several years ago.
I've not used that address anywhere else, as far as I know.
And for most of the time, going on at least 5-6 years, the main traffic was from ER, especially forum thread notifications. There were one or two spam emails during this time every couple of weeks.
But now, the activity is way up.
I will have to admit though that it's a recognizable word from a popular email provider. So it could have been discovered by spammers through brute force searching.
But like I said, a lot of the spam traffic is recent.
Anyone else seeing anything similar on the email address they used for ER?