I’m very careful with privacy and security so I was surprised I got an obvious phishing email from “American Express”. I reported the email and moved on only to get another one today. I checked haveibeenpwned and it came back clear. I have never gotten a phishing email before the other day. As for the senders, they all came from generic IT sounding email addresses. They obviously weren’t American Express.
Nah, my email is my name. It’s a very uncommon name.
And you have zero social media with your name?
Correct. I ditched social media a few years ago. No regrets. I deleted every account I did have. Snapchat was the last hold out. I deleted it because I got a popup that required I give consent to be used for AI training or some shit so I deleted the account.
A program to send to [list of firstname.lastname pulled from the census]@gmail.com or whatever is pretty easy. Also merchants sell the email lists for $ so if you’ve bought anything with that email that could be it.