Acebeam sending mail to my personal email address.

[hIKARInoob]

@varbos

But even then, if you know that eg Bangood has leaked your address, what are you going to do ? Write a stern email ?

Well, they might offer you 10 BG points.

[Rayoui]

I once clicked a link in a search engine to an LL Bean store page for a pair of gloves. I looked at the page for about 10 seconds and closed it. I didn’t click anything, create any accounts, or make any purchases. The following week, I received an LL Bean catalog in my mailbox, addressed to me by name. This is the world we live in today.

[Henk4U2]

@hIKARInoob

@varbos

But even then, if you know that eg Bangood has leaked your address, what are you going to do ? Write a stern email ?

Well, they might offer you 10 BG points.

That sure would lift up my day :innocent:

[Unheard]

Got a similar mail from Manker (also clearance sale/review), but none from Acebeam. Might be coincidence.

[pc_light]

Got the exact same PM from Cora of Acebeam this morning, I can also confirm that it was lifted from payment information.

As long as it stays withing Acebeam, I’m ok, it’s when it goes viral to other vendors that I would get upset.

[hank]

https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

offers a free email address good for only 10 minutes, long enough for a website to get you to “verify” it. Then it evaporates.

Or, use one of the free email services or a paid service (I like Sneakemail) to have a unique email address for every contact you make.

Then as noted above, you can tell who leaks it, and you can cancel it so whoever’s spamming it just gets bounces.

Yeah, I know, “reply by ICBM” is the option I really want for spammers, but it’s not available until we recognize spammers as terrorists.

[ChibiM]

Another thing you should, or could do is signing up with a Gmail address and add the site name where you sign up for. You need to add a Plus + symbol behind your name, succeeded by the name of the site you sign up for, and before the @ mark.

For example: myname+blf@gmail.com

This only works for gmail though.

You can add the name of the website behind the + symbol, and all emails will be delivered to your email box myname@gmail.com

SO you can have:
myname+cpf@gmail.com ,
myname+banggood@gmail.com,
myname+gearbest@gmail.com,

If any of these vendors sell your email address, you should be able to see WHO sold your email address since you added their site name to your email address.

This is a nice trick!

[RobertB]

@ChibiM

Another thing you should, or could do is signing up with a Gmail address and add the site name where you sign up for. You need to add a Plus + symbol behind your name, succeeded by the name of the site you sign up for, and before the @ mark.

For example: myname+blf@gmail.com

This only works for gmail though

If any of these vendors sell your email address, you should be able to see WHO sold your email address since you added their site name to your email address

This is a nice trick!

Nice trick indeed. Thanks

[will34]

I just tried the + trick but 2 out of 3 pages wouldn’t allow the + sign as part of the address

[SIGShooter]

I just use email accounts I create strictly for shopping/registering/etc so it doesn’t bother me when spam/offers get sent to them.

[Joshk]

@varbos

If you give your email to one Chinese company - Banggood, Gearbest, Manker, anyone - you should assume the whole of China has your details. Your email, address, purchases, everything.

That’s just the nature of China. Privacy, data protection, GDPR etc are alien concepts to to them. It is the wild west.

If you want to know where the leak came from you need to use a unique email address for every site. You can do this with some email providers. Then when you get some spam to that address and you know which site leaked it. But even then, if you know that eg Bangood has leaked your address, what are you going to do ? Write a stern email ?

How about write a stern post online, and then block incoming mail from that address?

[BurningPlayd0h]

Sometimes I can’t believe that generations of people alive right now lived through having their name, address and phone number published publicly. Not sure when their feelings shifted so much.

[Joshk]

@BurningPlayd0h

… Not sure when their feelings shifted so much.

When vendors started offering slightly better prices in exchange for their soul.

[MyRants]

@BurningPlayd0h

Sometimes I can’t believe that generations of people alive right now lived through having their name, address and phone number published publicly. Not sure when their feelings shifted so much.

When that information was spread farther and wider than any generations before had ever experienced.

[hank]

… people alive right now lived through having their name, address and phone number published publicly

It used to be quite expensive to copy info out of phone books, transfer it to paper, stick it on junk mail and pay postage to deliver it to people.

The problem isn’t that the information became available.
The problem is that it became dirt cheap to use it, leading to a vast proliferation of junk mail.

Cheaper than dirt, really.

Spam earns senders around $7,000 per day.
With so few people clicking, what’s the motivation behind email spam campaigns? Well, research has found that spammers don’t need a ton of clicks to maintain a rather profitable business model.
… with only one response per 12.5 million messages sent, spammers earn around $3.5 million from spam email over the course of one year.

100 Known Spam Operations responsible for 80% of your spam.

80% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe can be traced via aliases, addresses, redirects, locations of servers, domains and dns setups, to around 100 known spam operations listed in the ROKSO database.

https://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/

[pennzy]

@BurningPlayd0h

Sometimes I can’t believe that generations of people alive right now lived through having their name, address and phone number published publicly. Not sure when their feelings shifted so much.

Equifax breach and others have put out a lot worse than that. My college alumni magazine once printed mailing labels with Social Security #s on them. Yahoo, Target, etc., the list goes on.

[Minocc]

I have a domain registered through Google, that I use as an email forward. Anything that gets sent to anything @mysupersecretdomain.com gets forwarded to an email address I use.

This way if I am asked for an email address somewhere, I can make one up off the top of my head, or usually the name of the company asking for my email, and I can see when that email address gets shared.

For example, I signed up at Neal’s Gadgets with an email address of ng@ whatever my domain is.com, and noticed that I’m getting emails from Indigo Temple to that address. Never used it anywhere else.

[SIGShooter]

@pennzy

@BurningPlayd0h

Sometimes I can’t believe that generations of people alive right now lived through having their name, address and phone number published publicly. Not sure when their feelings shifted so much.

Equifax breach and others have put out a lot worse than that. My college alumni magazine once printed mailing labels with Social Security #s on them. Yahoo, Target, etc., the list goes on.

Up until last year the US government would send out Medicare information with your Social Security number and DOB on it in many cases. Yeap really secure there.

[Joshk]

@Minocc

… I signed up at Neal’s Gadgets with an email address of ng@ whatever my domain is.com, and noticed that I’m getting emails from Indigo Temple to that address. Never used it anywhere else.

The reasons not to buy from Neal’s Gadgets just keep growing by the day.

[mortuus]

they need to stop doing this.