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.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        As if they wouldnt deduplicate and sanitize their list.

        This is probably a 5min question on Chatgpt and executing it.