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Tell HN: I have received SPAM on my HN email

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I have just received a SPAM email on the account I use solely for signing in to Hacker News.

Here is a paste link of the redacted raw email: https://pastebin.com/F63w3ZDC

I have not opened any remote content so I don't actually know what's in it.

It's not your "HN" email address, it's the address you choose to put in your public HN profile (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cassianoleal) so someone just scraped public HN accounts and sent unsolicited spam emails. Just like it happens with Github all the time.

But the email we use to login is not public, only admins can see it. How does it work with github?

Github has a public email field, and you can also scrape the commit authors.

Are you sure the email in his profile isn’t different？

To add to this FYI: "SPAM" is the stylised trademark of a cooked pork brand. Spam is the name for unwanted nuisance email.

https://it.cornell.edu/gsuite-gsuite-student-facstaff-email/...

It looks like that email address was public on my profile's about box. I don't recall putting it there but it's possible I did it in the past and forgot.

Feel free to downvote this post into oblivion. :)

Thanks for those who helped me figure this out!

This is an email you posted to your _public_ profile in a community of tens(?) of thousands, consisting mainly of engineers and businesses people marketing to engineers. What did you expect?

Take a minute to report it to the sender's email service providers as well. Based on the link tracking, it appears to have been sent from elasticemail.com (abuse@elasticemail.com).

looks like HN headlines to me. Great newletter ;)

A newsletter that's sent without anyone signing up for it is not a newsletter, it's spam.

For a great HN newsletter I'd suggest the curated one that always re-surfaces some interesting links: http://hackernewsletter.com

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