Facebook spam?

[mmseng]

Hey I just got an email a couple hours ago (from "Facebook Support, Tod Deline ") which is a clone of a facebook "you just reset your password" email.

However it was addressed to my pcmech email account, which looks something like pcmech.com@mydomain.com. I use this account for pcmech and ONLY pcmech. And the email was BCC'd to a bunch of other pcmech-themed email accounts.

Ideas?

[glc]

Random spam. Out of our control. We assure you that we do not share our email address database with anyone.

[mmseng]

I certainly don't distrust PCMech. It has done me far too much good over the years. However it might interest you to know that, while the other BCC addresses in this spam email were of the format pcmech@example.com, or pcmech1@mydomain.net, or pcmechanic2@whatever.info... my email address is quite different. As with all of my registration emails, it is not only named per-site and used ONLY with PCMech, but also has a random key at the end of it, used specifically to avoid this type of spam.

It looks something like pcmech.com.jw92nf1l@mydomain.com. I'm not arguing that someone may have easily gleaned my email from another source without PCMech's help, but I will say that this is possibly the first "random", or "keyword-targeted spam" I've ever gotten since I started using this registration email scheme. So that's why it concerns me. Either the spammer pulled my email from somewhere, be it a past mass-email, or otherwise, OR their spam script was somehow lucky enough to guess the string which in my above example is "jw92nf1l".

[mmseng]

To whoeever is moderating this thread, sorry for all the double posts, I just saw the message about moderation when posting the last reply. The auto-redirect from that message page is far to quick for me to read that, so I wasn't aware before posting the duplicate replies.

[glc]

No problem - something was causing them to get caught in the spam filter. Original post approved, dupes deleted.