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Should I be concerned if I receive a spam email that contains the first 3 and last four digits of my phone number, with the middle 3 being replaced with X's? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by vortexal@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I haven't opened the email, I'm just looking at the preview that gmail provides and it contains the name of my email with the first character missing and most of my phone number, like I stated in the title of my post. How concerned, if at all, should I be and is there anything I should be doing?

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[–] rmtworks@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Considering how many data breaches have happened this year alone, I wouldn’t be very surprised if your phone number was leaked in one of them, along with your email address. Make sure you use unique passwords for all your online accounts (a password manager can help with this).

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I do already use different passwords for every account that I have and I changed my Gmail password recently. Is there anything else I should be worried about?

[–] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not worried necessarily. But as a suggestion, you could use different email addresses for different purposes. I use 1 address each for;

Family
Friends
Banking & Financial Services
Shopping
Lists I'm subscribed to (not related to the above)
Forums
Social Media
Junk And I use an email client to stay up to date with those accounts. That way when your Shopping email claims your bank has been hacked, you immediately know it's a scam because they are not connected.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

While I don't have that many, I do already have multiple email addresses that I actively use. I also have them setup as a recovery emails for each other, so that way, if a hacker wants to take over one of my emails, they'd have to hack all of them.

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