[Outages-discussion] AmEx Phishing to Outages Email Address

[Mel Beckman]

Jon,

I’m just curious why you would expect Outages — or any publicly accessible mailing list  — would not be scraped? Mailing lists seem such obvious low-hanging fruit for spammers.

I do like your idea of a separate email address for every list, which I surmise can easily be done with aliases and some simple record keeping. A quick goog found this discussion of the idea on StackExchange:

<https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/50934/using-unique-email-address-for-online-signups>
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Using unique email address for online signups?<https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/50934/using-unique-email-address-for-online-signups>
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 -mel

On Nov 14, 2024, at 11:53 AM, jrk1231-outml--- via Outages-discussion <outages-discussion at outages.org> wrote:

Hi,

I have separate email addresses for every company, app, mailing list, etc. which I send email to or receive email from. In the past three days, I have been receiving AmEx phishing emails targeted to my outages mailing list email address. I was curious wheither I was an isolated target, or whether a lot of outages subscribers have been getting similar emails—which could indicate outages itself had been scraped, vs. my address harvested from some individual's hacked email account.

Just curious. Requesting positive responses, and "not me"s.

Thanks!
Jon K
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