Yup. When I set up an account with Ameritrade, I initially created an email address ameritrade@mydomain.com. Then I started getting spam on it. But the spammers might have guessed that email address. So I created a new non-guessable email address ameritrade_29478763@mydomain.com. But then I started getting spam on that. So I notified Ameritrade. No response, so I closed my account. A few months later, there was a news item that a trojan running on the Ameritrade servers had compromised 6.3 million email addresses.
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Yup. When I set up an account with Ameritrade, I initially created an email address ameritrade@mydomain.com. Then I started getting spam on it. But the spammers might have guessed that email address. So I created a new non-guessable email address ameritrade_29478763@mydomain.com. But then I started getting spam on that. So I notified Ameritrade. No response, so I closed my account. A few months later, there was a news item that a trojan running on the Ameritrade servers had compromised 6.3 million email addresses.