So just about every website/company I do business with that requires an email address, I use a unique email address. The email address takes a very simple form: <company name>@synfin.net. The most important rules is that these email address are never used anywhere. So when I noticed I started getting spam to the email address for www.mytreo.net (no I still won’t post it so that spam harvesters can get it, but you can probably guess what it is), it would appear one of two things have happend:
- The people behind www.mytreo.net sold my email address to someone and at some point it was given/sold to a spammer
- Someone hacked the www.mytreo.net servers and dumped all the email addresses for all the registered users
If someone has a 3rd idea why, I’d love to hear it.
I use the same method for catching spammers. Works well for pr0n. Anyway, I haven’t really gotten much spam for my mytreo catch. I think I’ve gotten a grand total of like 104 emails since Jan ’06.
Yes it was hacked.
mytreo @ synfin.net
Nice.
It was actualy pretty easy.
It was actually pretty easy.
You get http://www.ipodbattery.com too? Actually this is an interesting pattern developing. Since I’m using unique email addresses for different websites, I now know which websites have been compromised- assuming of course they didn’t sell my email address.