The worst thing is when your so-called friends figure out for themselves that you have a catchall set up, so you start receiving emails to pigfucker@yourdomain, grabass@yourdomain etc... and it's not even spam, it's from your friends!
I've used to to my advantage: people are fascinated when you tell them "sure, you can use whatever you like! Send me a message at youmagnificentbastard@example.com, i'll get it."
I've actually gotten some really good ones that way, creative people trying to come up with better and better addresses to bother me with.
I got several thousand phishing notes to my domain a couple months back, and when I called the # on the domain registration, it was a POLICE OFFICER'S residence in New Jersey (phone # didn't match registration address), and they were quite confused: I use AOL, I have no idea what xyz.com is...
That site disappeared in about 6 hours, pretty good considering they were hosted on a "bulletproof" server somewhere in China
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I stopped reading after SCAM... didn't even make it to P.
HA HA!
I've actually gotten some really good ones that way, creative people trying to come up with better and better addresses to bother me with.
Agreed.
I got several thousand phishing notes to my domain a couple months back, and when I called the # on the domain registration, it was a POLICE OFFICER'S residence in New Jersey (phone # didn't match registration address), and they were quite confused:
I use AOL, I have no idea what xyz.com is...
That site disappeared in about 6 hours, pretty good considering they were hosted on a "bulletproof" server somewhere in China