[ale] OT(ish) Sold or stolen?

[Alex Carver]

Well, I can't give them a bogus address because valid account and
billing notices do come to that address.  Until recently the only thing
that came to that account were the notices.  It was only recently that
anyone attempted to spam it.

On 2014-09-03 14:18, JD wrote:
> If you don't want any spam use spam at domain.com - trust me, spammers won't spam
> you at that address for some reason.
> 
> Don't forget to setup mike at domain.com as your spam training account. It will
> work great too.
> 
> 
> On 09/03/2014 03:47 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> On 2014-09-03 09:09, Horkan Smith wrote:
>>> You've probably checked and eliminated this, but I've had periods where the
>>> spammers sent loads of completely random email usernames that were
>>> obviously auto-generated.  Every once in awhile, they've matched one of the
>>> ones I actually use.
>>
>> Yeah, these are generated as a mashup between a prefix (like 'att' or 'boa')
>> and a suffix that comes from something like pwgen or tempfile. So anyone
>> randomly spamming would have to guess the entity to spam and then come up
>> with the random sequence that fits what I have.
>>
>> It's not implemented in a way that is as complicated for places that use the
>> email address as the user login (since I have to remember it) but for this
>> use by AT&T, it's not the login so it's very complicated/random. 
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