I’ve seen a few hundred of these emails in the past couple days coming in from multiple different companies.
I’m looking for more info.
at least one said it was zendesk, most did not say any software.
the tickets are being sent with CC addresses that contain large email lists. often others on the CC who don’t know what’s happening will reply “stop emailing me”.
so far I’ve seen this coming in to multiple addresses and none of the sending companies are familiar either.
sounds familiar to anyone? any info on this? it’s there a name i can lookup to find more info? i want to know what services this effects so i can properly protect my stuff and my work stuff.
Check out https://port87.com
It’s an email service that I developed to solve this kind of problem. Everything you sign up for has its own address, so if you get these to your bank address, you know it’s a scam.
If you’re happy with your current email provider, you can achieve a similar result with subaddressing (aka plus addressing), if you set up a filter for each new address.
Subadressing isn’t quite as trustworthy, though, since it’s trivial to strip the plus tag, or other marks from the email.
That is true. I think spam lists usually have many thousands of addresses though, so unless they’re doing it with a script, they’re probably not stripping the subaddresses.
But a service that lets you use a dash instead of a plus, like Port87, is a bit safer in that regard. The dash is also accepted everywhere, whereas some places (like Microsoft) don’t accept a plus in an email address.
As if they wouldnt deduplicate and sanitize their list.
This is probably a 5min question on Chatgpt and executing it.
Does the hyphen get accepted everywhere? I use aliases already for every sign up but a shocking number of websites reject emails with the + sign as invalid, often the ones I’m most concerned about.
It’s worked everywhere I’ve tried it. Blocking the hyphen would be a really aggressive move, because that’s valid in usernames in most email services. I honestly don’t know why places block the plus.
Interesting service. I’ve been doing this manually with Addy.io but that’s not feasible or desired by most, this could be a solution for that.
I got the idea because I was doing it manually too with Sieve scripts on ProtonMail.
Please try it out, and if you like it, help spread the word. :)
Interesting. Will port87 work with third-party mail clients?
Not yet, but I’m working on that. SMTP works from a mail client, but I haven’t finished the IMAP server. I’m also working on customer domains, so you can bring your own domain. It’ll work with a single user setup (label@mydomain.com) or multi user setup (user-label@mydomain.com).
Or you can do it with duck.com for free
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