How bad is this for those using these accounts. I have blocked thousands over the years, but still today I average around 50 spam emails daily on my accounts. Gmail very few a month my ISP nothing
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As with any other site, if you accidentally reveal your email address, there will be the "one" who takes advantage and sells it to the spammers and phishers.How bad is this for those using these accounts. I have blocked thousands over the years, but still today I average around 50 spam emails daily on my accounts. Gmail very few a month my ISP nothing.
That's where I checked my email accounts. Pretty good but, they sometimes miss a few.Check your email addresses here and see if it has been involved in any breaches. Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
Many folks have inadvertently shown their email when showing their version of Windows 11 thus
Not only that, we need to bounce all spam email addresses and servers. If using Outlook (Office 365), one could have a rule that if one receives an email from a certain address, it could be deleted permanently, but that takes up much time eliminating each spam email. I also use yahoo and gmail and only occasionally get spam, but the spam in my hotmail has increased latelyI just wish we could bounce email that contains certain words or terms
You don't even need to reveal your emailadress on some site or forum. Because as the default setting in any email client (the online 'clients' as well) is that any adress you send a email to will be added in the adressbook. When someone's mail has been hacked after that, the hacker has all the adresses in the adressbook to be used and to be sold.As with any other site, if you accidentally reveal your email address, there will be the "one" who takes advantage and sells it to the spammers and phishers.
That depends how they use it, I use Proton for general contact, it is even listed on github and zero spam.I have told some of the members to hide their accounts when posting those screen shots but, I find it falls
on deaf ears. I still do it in hopes they will be able to edit their posts.
I already known mine has, from data breaches - checked it before. I still stuck with it. But interested to see there was a recent one:Check your email addresses here and see if it has been involved in any breaches. Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
Twitter (200M): In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
Compromised data: Email addresses, Names, Social media profiles, Usernames
As expected, they are not responsible for Outlook emails so that was a waste of time askingI have made a post in the Microsoft community forum for the attention of the staff, outlying my concerns with this product and ultimately to quit the product if the skills aren't there to make it secure. The bottom line is very simple, if my ISP of 24 years can do it I get around 1 a month then Microsoft with their, so skills should be able to do the same I would have thought. I will let you know what type of feedback I get if it's anything like I normally get like someone's reading from a script then I'm wasting my time, but we shall see