Michael Gray
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Personal mail addresses not used in years show up on To: line of email from unknown vendor.
I own a small business. My wife, who is also an owner received an email from a company we never contacted. The "To:" line included my wife's business "OurDomain.com" email address and two of my ancient personal email accounts, 1 mindspring.com and 1 AOL.com, not used in over 10 years. How did this vendor get those old personal email addresses and associate them with our business address?
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Dave Baldwin
There are people and organizations that collect and keep all the email addresses that they can. It seems that nothing ever disappears from the internet. If it was ever 'public' knowledge, somebody has it.
ASKER
Makes sense.
It's bizarre that this is the first time i've seen any reference to those addresses in at least 10 years. Why now?
It's bizarre that this is the first time i've seen any reference to those addresses in at least 10 years. Why now?
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Yea, they're scraping the bottom of the email address barrel.
thank you
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