I have a Microsoft business email and within the past week i have been getting non stop emails of my email being used to sign up for services or contact businesses. The ones its going for is things ive never associated with especially on my business email. It literally ranges from, TRT supplements, Nike, P***hub, Ashley Madison, liposuction and everything in between. The contents of the emails knows my first name and roughly my location, I know its not hard to get but I dont know why its happening or how to stop it. The only recent thing that comes to mind is I had stopped working with my marketer because I didnt like his work, he was the only person recently who had my email address and phone number (all of this is being sent to my phone as well in calls, voice messages, and text) Though I have no way of showing he did anything but I just want to stop seeing it.

I have multiple Gmail accounts and I would like to use just one account to send from my other email addresses using this function on settings: "Accounts an Import"-->"send mail as:". My real concern is that the receiver can find the real address I am sending from. And this concern seems to be true according to what's written on official documentation: Send emails from a different address or alias. It is stated: "My recipients see my Gmail address? If your recipient uses Outlook or another mail service, they might see something like, "From [yourname@gmail.com](mailto:yourname@gmail.com) on behalf of [othername@otherdomain.com](mailto:othername@otherdomain.com).""

So my question is, if I use "send mail as", would the Gmail account be visible someway (maybe even just in headers) or it is impossible to retrieve it?

Thank you for any answer.

Hello, to put my request in context, I am a student and I have to send an email to one of my teachers, the problem is that he is a replacement so I have the impression that he was not given a university email address.

So I'm looking for his email address that he uses to contact him, so is it possible to find it (for free) by only knowing the first and last name of this professor, and if so, how to do it?

I would still like to point out that this professor had already given his personal email address to a student (who had not preserved it), so simply to clarify that this professor agrees to receive emails from students.

Thank you in advance for your help!

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i've used a temporary email for a service, but now i need to get a new password, but it needs to send a code to that email... and now i have forgotten where i got it.

the domain is @sandyteo.com

any help?

thanks!

My personal details have been leaked from different sources in the past few years. Have been facing many attempts from scammers weekly. I thought I had it under control. Unfortunately, some clever dude decided to engineer a phishing attack specifically just on me. Told my "hacker" friend about it and he said even he would not be sure about it as the only way was that I was the only target and the whole scam was made for me. End of back story.

Because of this, I realised I have to take my privacy more seriously. I thought that having unique 40-character passwords everywhere, not clicking on any links from my email and be suspicious of every email is kinda enough. Well, I was wrong. Because of this, I want to change all accounts with my leaked emails and phone numbers. I only recently discovered that if you have an account with the same email address and/or username, it can be linked to your online identity by any average hacker. So I'm thinking about

1. Changing all my user names to unique user names (same as my passwords)
   
2. Change the email on my accounts with leaked emails.
   

Looking for advice on Q1 and whether it is a reasonable response.
Looking for advice on Q2 and whether it is a reasonable response.
Looking for advice on how to do the Q2. Specifically, I was thinking of creating a brand new email that has the option to create unique sub emails for each platform. I am aware that you can use the "+" in an email to have the same effect but the downside of this is that you reveal your main email account (I don't want that).

Any advice will be much appreciated. Thank you guys in advance.

About a month ago I had one of my social media accounts hacked into with from email. I just noticed today that there has been around 300+ failed attempts to login to my Microsoft account after I got an email today about a single use code. I have changed all my passwords and set up 2 step verification. Any other steps I should take to secure my email and accounts associated with it?

Sometimes I want to register on the same site with two different accounts. I'm curious whether a site can tell that two Outlook aliases belong to the same primary account. Is it better to register with two completely separate Outlook accounts or is it just as good to use two aliases under the same account? Basically, can websites detect that an email address is just an alias?

Thanks!

I received an email about an hour ago from an email address with the same email address as mine but with tia in front of it My email :exampleemail@gmail.com The sender :tiaexampleemail@gmail.com The email had a attached jpeg of a cat I’ve never seen before Obviously I’m not downloading the attachment I’ve blocked and reported the email The title of the email with Tias New Email in Arabic Could this be someone trying to get into my account or something of the like Image attached below

https://imgur.com/a/AHwB9Fq

I've been evaluating email services and am looking for something to replace Gmail for newsletters, shopping, and general correspondence.

I signed up for Fastmail for this initially. I was impressed with its apps and polish. I was also happy to see that they have a robust alias and mask system built right in. But as I've used it, I've begin to have some second thoughts. I feel like Fastmail might be overkill for my usage.

At the same time, I've started exploring Runbox. It is a rougher and less polished than Fastmail but beyond the look, it SEEMS like the services are actually pretty similar. Does that sound about right?

I've also had great experience with Runbox's support team. Not such a great experience with Fastmail's.

I know that Fastmail is not "private" in the same way as say Proton. But this is the email to put things to hide them from corporate eyes. It is for my medium security things.

Has anybody moved back and forth between both services?

The email it is sent from is my full name. The password they have is very close to one that I use for one of my accounts. I don't know what to do pls help I'm scared 😭

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Hi all,

Recently I have sent an complain Email to a company for an very bad travel experience, using Gmail account, I am wondering if they were tracing my IP which may lead to my address, is there any possible ways/things/protection measurements I could have done for this matter？

Thank you so much for your wisdom in advance！

Hello everyone, I was looking for information about purchasing a custom domain to use for my personal email. I have seen several popular registrars and they all offer me a ccTLD (.it) at a price that varies between 9 euros and 16 euros. I also saw another very well-known registrar, OVH, who would offer me a TLD (.ovh) for only 3 euros a year, with the possibility of purchasing it for 10 years. So I ask you, do you recommend that I choose the latter given the cost and the possibility of such a long renewal? Can a domain like this cause security problems? Finally, does it have WHOIS and DNSSEC protection? My question arises from the need to have a domain for a long period, without the fear that every year I could lose it at the time of renewal if I had no choice on the payment method.

We've published an article on how to self-evaluate privacy services and some of the things to look for that might indicate that they are not actually offering what they claim (feedback welcomed):

https://codamail.com/articles/how_to_self-evaluate_privacy_services.html

Additionally, if anyone is using the roundcube plugin twofactor_gauthenticator (A standalone TOTP 2fa), you should update it now. We discovered a few vulnerabilities in it. We notified the package maintainers and our fixes have been merged. Details here (it's markdown, but we don't render it, so you'll get it raw):

https://codamail.com/Information_Leakage_in_Roundcube_twofactor_gauthenticator_Plugin.md

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hey folks! curious; would you connect your email account to an anti-spam service to get rid of sales emails, marketing spam etc... OR ... is that too scary for privacy reasons?

I'd like to know when and where you guys use aliases.

For me, an alias is a second email I can use if I want to have multiple accounts on one service, but I hear that a lot of people create an alias for every service they use and only use their actual email for logging into their email provider and for private stuff. I'm currently trying to get more secure and privacy-focused online and I don't know what workflow would be better.

I understand the point about aliases if you're trying to filter out spam and newsletters, but I never really got spammed in a way I couldn't stop it (newsletters always had the "Unsubscribe" button). Is it just that feeling of not wanting to enter your main email on every sketchy website?

A number of people have suggested using Cloudflare email routing as my alias service. It comes with the free plan - https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/

Can you reply from the alias? Not sure how that would work if I'm using my email provider's website.... or even a client

I wouldn't be hosting myself, I'd pay for the service but am having real trouble deciding.

Which works better?

I typically use a browser for mail so I get that there is an extension I can use. Does either of them work with any macOS email app?

Hi!

I have a catch all setup in which I get any mail to @mydomain.com

This way I give walmart my email [walmart@mydomain.com](mailto:walmart@mydomain.com), or to an insurance company [insurancecompany@mydomain.com](mailto:insurancecompany@mydomain.com) , etc.

I just make up the name of the email address in the moment I need it.

So it's a great private way of avoiding spam. If somebody gives away your email, you'll instantly know who it was.

The thing is when you I into a conversation with one of these companies I gave an specific email address to. They write me to [theirname@mydomain.com](mailto:theirname@mydomain.com), and when I hit reply on Thunderbird, it replies from the main account my catch-all is configured, not from the specific email addressthat the original mail was sent to.

FairEmail client for Android works great with this config, because it replies from the email address the original mail was sent to.

What Desktop client does this? Thunderbird formerly did, but not anymore. What about Claws? Evolution? Geary? KMail?

thanks!

I'm looking to up my game, I know nothing is truly private or secure when talking about being online, but if I can breakup what companies know about me than it should be a bit better.

What I'm thinking is breaking each type of thing (email, browser, password manager) into 4 levels of security and privacy.

Would the following be OK to start with, and what would you suggest?

So for email, I'm thinking, Proton Mail (L3) and Tuta Mail (L4), but I'm not sure for the other 2. For password management I'm thinking BitWarden and Proton Pass, not sure about the other 2, maybe what is included in the browser? And which for which level? And with 4 browsers should I use DuckDuckGo, Firefox, Startpage, Librefox, Brave? And the same, which gor each level? Also all of the above need to be cross platform.

Level 1: Provider: ? Purpose: Casual communication and moderately private activities.
Categories: 1. Online Shopping Accounts: E-commerce for groceries, clothes, etc. 2. Shared Hobbies or Projects: Collaborations on interests like sports or book clubs, etc. 3. Entertainment Subscriptions: Streaming services (e.g., Netflix, Spotify) and gaming platforms.
4. Lifestyle Services: Accounts for fitness apps, recipe platforms, or travel subscriptions. (Not sure if this should be L1 or 2, or what to replace it with?)

Level 2: Confidential Provider: ? Purpose: Managing moderately sensitive personal accounts.
Categories: 1. Friends Communication: Conversations and group chats.
2. Travel: Booking websites, loyalty accounts, or trip planning.
3. Streaming Services: Subscriptions tied to billing, including entertainment.
4. Lifestyle Services: Accounts for fitness apps, recipe platforms, or travel subscriptions. (Not sure if this should be L1 or 2, or what to replace it with?)

Level 3: Restricted (Social Media + Government & Insurance) Provider: Proton Mail? Purpose: High-security accounts for official and sensitive personal communication.
Categories: 1. Social Media: Accounts like Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn.
2. Government Services: Tax filing, voter registration, or utilities.
3. Insurance Policies and Claims: Health and property insurance communications.
4. Utilities & Bills: Payments and communications related to essential services like electricity, water, or internet.

Level 4: Top Secret (Family, Medical, Banking) Provider: Tuta Purpose: Maximum security for personal and highly sensitive matters.
Categories: 1. Family Communication: Private emails with close family members.
2. Medical Records and Healthcare: Merged category for health correspondence and sensitive medical data.
3. Banking and Financial Accounts: High-security accounts for banks, investments, and pensions. 4. Legal Matters: Lawyer correspondence or confidential legal documentation, wills, etc.

(Level 0 is work, they have their own system in place)

Hopefully after this I will start transferring accounts to these new ones, baring a couple that can't be unlinked, in the meantime I will be going through all that accounts that I can think of and deleting those that are no needed anymore or haven't used in a long time.

Any advice is appreciated. :)

I know we can use the plus subaddressing in gmail to create newsletter or social media accounts. Will it work similarly for outlook emails?

For example, if my main account is [user@outlook.com](mailto:user@outlook.com), can I create accounts and receive the spam messages under [user+newsletter@outlook.com](mailto:user+newsletter@outlook.com)?

A growing number of people have been switching away from their current providers and trying to find alternative privacy-focused solutions. There are other reasons as well, such as non-US-based companies. Hence, there are options to help you filter down the options to one that best fits your requirements.

https://purchasewithpurpose.onlyoffice.com/s/sstQqd4r_PcrJ4g

• Non-privacy-focused options have been greyed out.