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I just checked the spam folder of a gmail account I used for dropbox. Throughout the years I'd ocasionally (maybe once every two months or so) check the spam folder merely out of curiosity, but it was practically always empty.

Perhaps this is just a huge coincidence but I see three spam emails sent today plus another two sent this week. Some of them have cc recipients which seem legit addresses of other people, but I can't identify them. I never used Zendesk by the way.

Edit: here are the senders, in case it helps: no-reply@adsl.hu, no-reply@velkommenhit.no, no-reply@wdl.fr, no-reply@tataidc.co.in, no-reply@variationfm.com. Though it looks like these addresses may have been spoofed... the sender name is "{%FROM_NAME%}" in all of them.

Edit 2: It turns out Groupon Germany (former citydeal.de), which I checked out once with the same address, is responsible from what I can gather (link in german, but everything matches, company has yet to say anything): http://hukd.mydealz.de/diverses/groupon-verkauft-kundendaten...




Whoa - yeah my spam folder has two sent to "dropbox.com@<mydomain>.com"

From ".Вишняков@direct.nacha.org" <kohinoorwm87@lifesep.com> and ".Белов@fdic.gov" <runoffiz@smarterbythemonth.com> with subjects of "Declined Direct Deposit payment" and "Update of the security software is required!"

I do get lots of "random" spam sent to addresses like "fcbb3a43@<mydomain>.com" but I can't believe the moderators really think that a "random" guess would land on "<domain>.com@<mydomain>.com" sigh


Those look exactly like the phishing emails I received on my dropbox-specific email address


I think that I tracked my spam to the following exploit:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/31/yahoo-mail-users-st...

If you ever shared anything with somebody using Yahoo email your email is already in the wild.


Same. I rarely check the recipient addresses in my spam folder, but today there was a LinkedIn-style phishing email to my Dropbox-specific address.




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