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Comment by rasz_pl | Hacker News Reader

Anecdote: Created new and unique Microsoft account 3 weeks ago with the sole purpose of testing w10, used it only ONCE to log into w10 vm. Started this VM today, logged into outlook and what do I see? 2 spam messages and one google news bounce.

How do you trust a company like that with any data?

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I suppose you're implying that Microsoft sold your new account name to spammers? It could also be that you used a name that you, or someone else, have used at a different place and the spammers simply try sending mail to all the big email providers with that name in the hope of reaching someone. That would seem like a more probable explanation to me.

    Created new and unique Microsoft account

I figure it was something he hadn't used before.

Spammers send out to machine generated lists of potential email addresses.

If you create "james053164@hotmail.com" it will get spam eventually.

(Well a bit faster now that it is indexed)

You are luckier than me. My windows 10 VM have usually crashed after a week.

now that you mention, it pops memory read error every time I shut it down.

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