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T156@lemmy.world 1 day agoInformation might also be leaked through data breaches. An email is not a particularly hard thing to find, or even guess.
A spammer could easily just have a computer iterate through all possible combinations of emails and usernames, and shotgun it.
Especially for a name like OP’s. If their email is a similar name, it wouldn’t be difficult for generate one that is also two words.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah, my email is my name. It’s a very uncommon name.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And you have zero social media with your name?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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.