That’s a use case for aliases, catching if any company or service gives out your email to be abused by advertisers and whatnot. I tried looking for stories but didn’t find any, I wonder if you have any to share.

  • jonneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ve caught a few, usually the email gets leaked in a data breach (ie. Adobe got breached a while back, so I just block all email to adobe@mydomain.tld). Surprisingly I don’t really catch a lot of companies reselling mailing lists, it’s mostly data breaches that you can find on haveibeenpwned.

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Somehow my Xfinity alias I used last year (before I escaped them, thank god) was stolen and it gets spam from time to time. Xfinity hasn’t reported a breach, but somehow it’s the only one I’ve caught so far.