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by Imagenuity 1525 days ago
I use different email addresses for everyone, and have a catchall on my domain. Been using this setup since the late 90's.

My spam comes from a few sources:

- data breaches that leaked an email address (Adobe, Dropbox, LinkedIn, GoDaddy etc)

- family that used to forward all kinds of crap using the TO: field instead of BCC:

- some companies sold my email which then started to propagate more and more

- some just figured it out. If you own a domain firstlast.com you'll get spammed at first@firstlast.com

- dns records

There are more I'm sure. These are the sources I'm certain of.

Your email is only as secure as the weakest link that has that address.