I’m in the process of deGoogling and also shoring up my email privacy, which means I’m hyper aware of mistakes I make, hence the stupid question:

I was testing something with Proton Mail and misspelled the domain—swapped the “r” with one of the neighboring letters.

I didn’t get an email bounceback, which is fine, because you don’t always get a bounceback anyway. But, should I be concerned that I might have just volunteered my email directly to some spam outfit?

The “wrong” domain is registered. I’m acutely aware that the misspelling being one letter away from “Proton” might be intentional to capture misspellings like the one I made. Also, the wrong domain seems to be associated with oopatet.com and trellian.com, which are blocked by ublock.

Is there anything I should do from a privacy perspective?
Or is this a non-issue?

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    Your email probably disappeared into some phishing company’s email system if you didn’t get any return email or delivery failure notification. How much of a problem that is depends on how much you and the intended recipient care about random companies knowing your names and email addresses. The worst case scenario is that both of you will receive spam and/or phishing attempts from now on.

    If you were an EU company, this could have been classified as da data breach that would need reporting. You aren’t so it’s not an issue, but letting the intended recipient know might be appreciated at least.