If they got your email due to to database being hacked, then they most likely would mass send their spam to extend their possible reach.
So far I have not received any email spam since the very beginning of me joining here.
What also happens is that spam mail bots simply send out made up emails to people in the hope they guess them right.
For example, they send emails to
[email protected] [email protected] and the list goes on.
All in the hope that one or more of these mails are guessed correctly.
Nah, I run my own email servers - definitely not found by guessing - I'd see the other attempts.
However, it is the same email I've had here for 5 years, but the first time I've had spam sent to it
If you run your own mail servers, could one of them get compromised somehow giving out your email addresses? Also, are you absolutely sure that you didn't share this email somewhere yourself? I've seen a lot of cases when people did something and then honestly claimed that they didn't do that only to get greatly surprised to find out later that it was actually them...
How old are you? Just kidding, lol
None of the many email servers I've been running for the last 15 years have yet to be compromised.
I did once have a computer at home running linux, compromised once ... back around 1998.
Lulz I guess you mistakenly give your email address out
As I said above, I have over 700 (with many domains I own), coz each one only gets given to one place.
Helps with spam a lot - easy to delete one email address without affecting anything else - and know who was compromised.
I had 3 addresses on adobe and yep those 3 got spam soon after adobe was compromised a while back.
I had one on the bfl web site that got spam, though they probably sold the email list
Probably had half a dozen places in the last 5 years where the sites have either been compromised or given out their address list ...
But fortunately in each case I simply have to delete the address with zero care.
I keep a few very old addresses that get spam, for filter training - they get something of the order of 500 spam messages each day.
