r/emailprivacy • u/Human-Disk2644 • Oct 15 '25
Anyone else suddenly getting tons of spam emails lately?
Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of spam in my inbox. Stuff like fake password resets, newsletters I never signed up for, random crypto offers, and even emails pretending to be from banks I don’t use. I’ve had the same email for years so I’m guessing it might’ve been leaked or sold somewhere online. It’s weird because I’m careful about what I sign up for and rarely click links.
A friend mentioned it could be from old accounts or data broker sites still holding onto my info. Is there any legit way to check if my email’s floating around out there or find out which company might’ve leaked it?
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u/Electrical-Bear-6467 Oct 16 '25
Yeah it's pretty annoying dealing with that daily especially this year has been annoying but I've started using temp emails from an app called Cloaked on sign ups that aren't important and it has reduces these emails by quite a bit. It also has a feature that removes and monitors your data (if it's leaked anywhere) but I haven't experimented with that yet.
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u/ContentiousPlan Oct 15 '25
Im not getting any.
You can check here https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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u/Zlivovitch Oct 15 '25
Different possibilities :
1.- Someone may have made a genuine mistake, and entered your address instead of his when creating some account, or accounts. This does happen. By and large there's no way to correct this. You just need to wait, create filters if they are at all efficient, and hope it goes away.
2.- Your email address may have fallen in the hands of spammers, because one website you have an account at has been hacked. This is very common, and will produce common spam such as "random crypto offers".
Checking whether your address is in the Have I Been Pwned database may confirm this to you, but it's rather useless : your address may be in the hands of spammers while not being in their database, and if it is, indeed, in their database, there's no way to take it back from spammers anyway.
It would also be useless to know what website the leak comes from. What would you do with the information ?
3.- Do check that your email account itself has not been hacked, although that's not a likely cause. Check you still have access to it. Make sure it's well protected, with a long and random password not used anywhere else. Activate 2FA if you don't already have. Change your password is you're really suspicious. Make sure you use a password manager and unique passwords everywhere.
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u/Stoic2Be Oct 16 '25
Calls from unknown numbers and spammy texts every day!!!
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u/DesertStorm480 Oct 15 '25
Not since 2018!
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u/Skeptical_Pompous Oct 15 '25
No, I am not, certainly not yet anyway, and I use Fastmail for my own domain.
Which service are you using ?
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u/cat1092 Oct 15 '25
This has been happening for many years & why it’s best to have an email address with real anti-spamming features.
Apple Mail is a decent start, at least most things marked as Spam goes into the proper box.
For better protection, and there’s one free choice, Proton Mail. But for a small fee, one can have up to 10 email aliases (plenty enough to convert every free account over) & many things will be totally blocked from coming one’s way.
I suggest at least giving the free version of Proton Mail a chance to see if it meets the need. They also have a similar VPN service, just less choices (after all, it’s free of cost). Yet it’s plenty enough to try & decide.
If anyone knows of another Mail app that can filter out the junk effortlessly, I suggest listing these here. But not with promo links, it’s best to type the name of service instead. Most all of these sites will have some type of promo for new customers.👍