Dave's not here, man
Mar. 30th, 2010 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanI get a lot of spam and phishing email. Like, a lot. I've had the same domain for over 10 years, I post to Usenet and LJ and blogs all over the internet, I've been on a ton of mailing lists over the years. I always find it fascinating when I start getting emails to user names that could only have been scooped from personal emails. Kind of makes you go hrmmm, you know?
A lot of them are also addressed to email addresses that I have never used. I imagine that throwing together a random combination of letters and numbers works often enough to make it worthwhile to just hit any email address possible at a given domain. Since it's my domain I get to see them all.
And the one that really makes me scratch my head? Are the emails addressed to brocolli-sacrifice. It is the most common spam email address I get, and I've been getting them for years.
No. Idea.
A lot of them are also addressed to email addresses that I have never used. I imagine that throwing together a random combination of letters and numbers works often enough to make it worthwhile to just hit any email address possible at a given domain. Since it's my domain I get to see them all.
And the one that really makes me scratch my head? Are the emails addressed to brocolli-sacrifice. It is the most common spam email address I get, and I've been getting them for years.
No. Idea.