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I didn't receive that specific spam, but in the past few days I have noticed a very suspicious increase in my Spam, one of which was from some place called "TradersCrux" (Editor (TradersCrux)<traderscrux@reply.bronto.com>) which I have never heard of before, and made me think perhaps somehow my email address (or all of the user database?) maybe have been compromised from here. In the last couple days I also started getting multiple spams from "New York Times Partnernewsletter@mortgagesfinder.com" (as if it were some kind of list or something?) but I never heard of these either... Could be unrelated... but the "TradersCrux" crap made me think it is possible it could be from here.. I don't know.
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Not sure why either one of you guys would think those emails are from us when they are clearly coming from completely different domains than ours.
The OP's implication is absolute BS. He went and got a free disposable email address from a place called Xoxy.net (which maps to a site called spamgourmet.com by the way) and he thinks we shared his address? That's funny stuff right there. People need to understand that these low-grade disposable email services are in the business of sharing their user's email addresses because that's the only way they can make money offering a free email service. Further evidence of this is simply the fact that nobody else has even chimed in saying they got the same email that he received.
I kinda figured. I know from experience that (for all their faults) gmail at least doesn't sell addresses. For one-off message board sign-ups (other than ET of course) I'll use guerrillamail to avoid this issue.
I was not trying to make any accusations. I just wanted to provide a data-point, with respect to strange emails I've received this week (one of which had a trading-theme to the spam), in the unlikely event something happened and somehow a third party was able to access forum members' email addresses.
Well, it is not BS. I've been using this email service for over 10 years. It lets me use a different email address for every entity I sign up with. I now have over 100 distinct email addresses with them. And I highly recommend that everyone use this or a similar service, routinely, the same way I do. Over the years maybe five percent of the places abused or did not adequately protect my email addresses and it was good to know instantly who they were. And there were one or two that were quite surprising. The most unexpected was when I started receiving spam from Equifax (or from someone who somehow obtained Equifax's email list) and I had to dispose of that email address. You would think that place would be very secure. This may be true of some, but not this place. As I said, ~95% of my disposable email addresses over a 10+ year period receive zero spam. That's a good point. If I'm the only one who got this spam then it is unlikely that ET's email list was appropriated and is the culprit here. To your point, and the only alternate explanation I can think of, is that my email service has started selling only a small portion of its stock of email addresses; which seems unlikely but nonetheless possible. So I hereby rescind any unintentional implication of ET impropriety.
If 95% of your email address receive no spam, then there's really no point whatsoever in having 100 email addresses. It's like you're trying to counteract some incredible spam attack to your inbox that never actually happens. Thanks. I'm sure your site registrations and therefore your registered email addresses span a diverse range of sites, so it could be that they are only selling the email addresses associated with trading and/or finance sites. Hard to say.