My Freeserve email addy is of the form
'[email protected]'; I use a different '
anything' at different sites that I register at to guard against spam.
A couple of years ago I started registering for a free trial at Emusic and gave a
unique email addy on the initial page. Then, when it started asking for my credit card, I curtailed my application.
So, I wasn't even a member of Emusic (couldn't log in as you would expect). Yet, it obviously remembered my email addy and leaked it, as shortly after I started to get spam addressed to this
email addy that I used exclusively for Emusic.
I complained to them but a director replied denying that they had any security breach.
For a year or so I got the odd spam using this addy. However, recently in the past few months I'm getting about 40/50 per day and seems to be increasing.
I'm not too bothered yet, as the spams are not very large and I can filter them to delete from server without downloading them. I'm just a bit concerned that they are on the increase and could get larger and more of them to fill my server mailbox.
These are not isolated instances, there are quite a few articles and blogs about it. Just google "Emusic spam"!
Has anyone else noticed this or is affected by it?
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