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Comment by Jaxan

8 hours ago

I just do <website>@<myhost.tld>. It is sometimes confusing by when interacting with customer support ;-)

Yes ma'am, my email address really is bofa.com@<optionoft's-lastname>.com

No I'm not trying to hack you.

Which in hindsight is also what a hacker would say. I can't win...

  • On top of it my email address is .me so is very common to when I finish spelling my e-mail, people waiting for .com

  • There are some big brain companies who will block you if their name appears in the email address. Like Discord. You can create an account, with discrod@example.com. But a seconde later you will get an email that your account got band.

    They know their way around IT security! /s

    • What you say is often true, but in the case of Discord, at least in my case, you are wrong. My Discord email address is discord@xxx.com, and I am still receiving emails from them.

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I had one website forward my mail to their legal department who asked me why I’m impersonating them :D Only required a short explanation though.

I have an account just like that at Best Buy with my domain. The teenage cashier I gave it to thought it was cool.