Brand New Email Account And Spam Already

Legacy_user

Opened a gmail account, Opened less than 2mins, I changed my email address on this site over to it, they send a verification email. So I log into get it and in the spam folder I have this.

Click Life Cover
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Click is a brand licensed to Castle Publicity International Ltd registered in Gibraltar, company registration number (84755) at 932 Europort. Click Financial Ltd is the service provider for Castle Publicity International Ltd. Click Financial Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, registered number 311877. Registered in England and Wales at: Click House, Bear Lane, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7LG. Registered Number: 04183791.


How the hell did this happen?

HappyIdiotTalk

Did it turn up in your inbox or spam folder?

The spam server that sent it to you could simply be guessing emails addresses randomly at GMail. I have my own domain and create email addresses per site I sign up with. For example my email address here is:

moneysavingexpert@fictitiousdomain.com

My email address at the bbc would be bbc@fictitiousdomain.com, google would be google@fictitiousdomain.com ect ect... This allows me to blacklist any email addresses that I get spammed from without effecting my other email addresses. Quite neat.

And yet I get spam from things like aaaa11111@fictitiousdomain.com, this is the spam servers trying to guess email addresses at my domain. Fortunately I dont get many, but you can bet all the spammers target GMail in this way!