bbs.spamgourmet.com

Perhaps amusing only to me.

I've been using spamgourmet in basic mode for almost 10 years without incident. Great job.

Today I received spam from an address I never created. Logged in and sure enough the address was created today. I started to think my luck had run out and would need to add a watchword. However the address was a bit goofy, at-digital-cameras.d.*****@s**g.com. Looked back at my history and sure enough there was an old address, great-digital-cameras.d.*****@s**g.com I created years ago. Appears that I am just a victim of a spammers typo.

Your track record is still perfect.

CICO wrote:Perhaps amusing only to me. Appears that I am just a victim of a spammers typo.

Well, spammers could of course collect email addresses for all publicly known addresses and generate new address variations and send junk. That would work. But luckily SG is so small target, that nobody bothers to do that. (?)

In that case only fix would be changing watchwords often enough, which would be pretty painful afaik.

I was hit today with two new emails to my @spamgourmet.com address. Which is funny since I use other domains.
Both the emails were created today 1-11 and they were called xcconnecttest and xcconnect. I have been working up till a few minutes ago, I am on my "smoke break". I am sure I have not signed up any new emails today, I generally remember an hour or so

Once a year I see a new variation on an address. They usually just get deleted fairly quickly. I figure the spammers harvest email addresses and their harvesting software is buggy.