Any idea who sells email addresses to Catena Cycling?

bikeboon

I've never signed up yet they have my email not published on facebook, linkedin etc.

Thoughts?

deptfordmarmoset

Subs to cycling mags? Online shopping for bike stuff? It's probably not what you've not done, it's what you've been doing.

Mind you, I've never heard of Catena Cycling before. I wonder whether they do energy drinks - they could brand them Catatonics....

spasypaddy

its a 'partner' of climb by bike. so if you have signed up for climb by bike then thats where the email has originated from

optimisticbiker

Having my own email domain means I can assign a unique email to every site I sign up for...

So its a bit worrying when I get spam and the email used is 'Travelodge@xxx.yyy' or 'thetimes@xxx.yyy' - organisations that claim to be strong on privacy and never release your email to third parties....

davis

OptimisticBiker wrote:

Having my own email domain means I can assign a unique email to every site I sign up for...

So its a bit worrying when I get spam and the email used is 'Travelodge@xxx.yyy' or 'thetimes@xxx.yyy' - organisations that claim to be strong on privacy and never release your email to third parties....

You know that spammers will try some_random_string@yourdomain.com? Once they don't get a rejected message it's pretty much out there, so don't just choose simple words like "thetimes".

optimisticbiker

davis wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

Having my own email domain means I can assign a unique email to every site I sign up for...

So its a bit worrying when I get spam and the email used is 'Travelodge@xxx.yyy' or 'thetimes@xxx.yyy' - organisations that claim to be strong on privacy and never release your email to third parties....

You know that spammers will try some_random_string@yourdomain.com? Once they don't get a rejected message it's pretty much out there, so don't just choose simple words like "thetimes".

I am aware of that, but I don't make it that simple either - it was simplifed for this post - the email address I give them has another non-obvious ident in it as well (base26 encoding of the date&time of registration) so I am pretty sure this is a breach and I am in conversation with the associated companies at the moment... What is interesting is that spam arrived within a day or two of registering on each site and both were sent from the same IP address but haven't re-occured. I have some theories about shared third-party services, or a rogue developer in common... time will tell...