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.

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I have, and when it happens, the company responsible loses my business.

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I have.

No story to it, don’t recall. Just killed the alias and moved on.

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Yes. My system wasn’t compromised. They just put my address as their From: address. I got bounces.

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cant dmarc prevent this? 😳

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It was a long time ago.

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but a strict dmarc can prevent it right… paranoid now 😅

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I got a pump and dump scam from an alias that I only used for my brokerage account. They assured me it wasn’t them. A week later they publicly announced that they were hacked.

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This happened with me and Robinhood.

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Not yet, but oddly I wait in anticipation.

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