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So I was checking my Proton Mail inbox, as I usually do, when I came across a hilarious email in my spam folder.

Your Mailbox storage is 99% full

You are currently using 4852.3 MB of 5000.00 MB available

Don't risk losing new incoming messages, Follow below to increase your email account storage.

Increase Your Email Storage

I was very careful not to click on any links in the email.

I was not fooled even for a second. It was impossible for me to have run out of storage. You know why? Because I paid for a Proton Unlimited subscription a few months ago, and I have more than enough storage!

The fact that I got this email means someone got access to my email address, which makes it hard to narrow it down because I used to sign up for a LOT of services. I've started using Addy to create new aliases, but I really wish I had done that sooner, so I could see who sold me out.

Here's a lesson: always use an email alias, so that when/if this happens, you'll know who leaked your email address!

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 6 hours ago

The gouverment stole 505 gb

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Goobeaurmant

[-] Lawn_and_disorder@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I use my own domain and catch all. So signupatservice1 will be at signupatservice1@mydomain.ml and so on easy to check whats what

[-] davidebro@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

That's why I don't use Proton, but Startmail. Their email aliases system is perfect. Haven't got any trouble so far. Is this a common problem with Proton?

[-] governorkeagan 3 points 7 hours ago

I feel like this is provider agnostic. If you signup to a bunch of different newsletters (or anything else really), at some point your email will get out there.

Proton has email aliasing via SimpleLogin which I have found to be really good.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 35 points 19 hours ago
[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 15 points 19 hours ago

To fill up 510gb worth of emails would take an eternity

[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 19 points 17 hours ago

The storage space is shared with Proton Drive

[-] tomsh@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I have a laptop with more than an unlimited SSD. It's not that expensive anymore.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 15 hours ago

Maybe I'm desensitized because our group address is published in multiple places on the web, but that email is not even slightly noteworthy. This November we've already gotten 7 emails that said our mailbox was full or we needed to change its password.

To me this is just background noise of the Internet.

[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 16 points 17 hours ago

With Proton Unlimited you have access to SimpleLogin as well.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 27 points 20 hours ago

Looks like one of the better attempts, TBH. I've seen some poor ones over the years.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 8 points 17 hours ago
[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 16 hours ago

XcQ, don't click you.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Duck email offers kinda the same idea of anonymous emails for free. If you use their extension you can generate one-off subsidiary random accounts to be deleted later after use. You can do this on the spot, a single click while filling whatever registration form, really convenient.

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago

I got a similar phishing mail as well though not for my primary email account. Most of them just redirect to a similar looking login UI and ask the user to enter password.

this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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