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Have you ever caught a marketing or spam email sent using one of your email aliases? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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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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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month 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.