Have you ever caught a marketing or spam email sent using one of your email aliases?
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.
I have, and when it happens, the company responsible loses my business.
Yes. My system wasn’t compromised. They just put my address as their From: address. I got bounces.
cant dmarc prevent this? 😳
It was a long time ago.
but a strict dmarc can prevent it right... paranoid now 😅
As long as the recipient denies spoofed From: addresses, yes. There are still mail services out there that let spoofed email in.
I have.
No story to it, don't recall. Just killed the alias and moved on.
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.
This happened with me and Robinhood.
Not yet, but oddly I wait in anticipation.
Yep! Only about twice in several years though. Sometimes it's the same company that started up or bough another company and gave your email without telling you.
I've been using email aliases for a few years now, but all spam I get is addressed to my main email (which admittedly is readily available on my website). Seems like no one has sold my email address yet
Yeah, sure. We believe you "Mr. Lube" is an auto service shop.
Yup, with my bank account
Not that I am aware of. Though one time someone made a Facebook account using my email. I was able to log in by requesting a password reset, then I posted a status message (or whatever) that said "Get your own goddamn email" and then changed to the password to gibberish and filed a account deletion request.
Yeah, but it's mostly the ones you'd expect.
It generally wasn't real known brands. They just spam you with their own nonsense.
Once, way back when I still used Hotmail. It's what made me stop using Hotmail.
Disney
I have a few times. I made an email service that only uses aliases called Port87. Now I can just block the alias when it starts to get spam.