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If the local part isn't obvious,[1] I'd say the likelihood is high that the service shared or sold its list or possibly even was hacked. If you use the name of the service in the local part (micro...
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Michael
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2026-08-17T01:27:00Z (about 1 month ago)
If the local part isn't obvious,[^1] I'd say the likelihood is high that the service shared or sold its list or possibly even was hacked. If you use the name of the service in the local part (`[email protected]`), the spammer *could* infer that other services in the local part could also work, and so try to disguise its origin. But why do that? They're usually operating on volume, and they might guess a service that you don't use. [^1]: `admin`, `postmaster`, `abuse`, `staff`, `info`, …