(Archived) Can someone figure out your EN address and mail you stuff?

[stanwelks 1]

Do all Evernote email addresses follow a standard convention? Im wondering if someone can somehow figure out your evernote email address and mail you anything they want into your account?

[gazumped 9,568]

If you have any reservations,  go online and change your address regularly..

[C6REW 416]

I have no understanding of how these things are found, but the email address is quite random so somehow I would have thought it highly unlikely.

Regards

Chris

[gazumped 9,568]

Hi Chris - email addresses are easy to create - start with a domain @example.com and load the front end with all the name and number variations you can think of.  Bulk spam the lot at a mail server and ignore the ones that come back with 'address not known' and random versions thereof.  The rest are live addresses - spam at will.  Rinse and repeat with as many variations as you can,  as quickly as is possible with email,  and you build up to a nice naughty mailing list.  I'm told.  Or I read somewhere.  (Actually I was a spam cop at an ISP )

 

Evernote have my user name - and it's not what you see here - plus a number of random characters.  So as long as 1) it's hard to get my user name,  and 2) it's further protected by 100,000-option random add-on characters,  I think it's pretty safe from online attack.  There's more risk someone could look at my monitor and copy it.

 

Edit:  PS have you noticed your signature is hinky?

[C6REW 416]

Thanks for the explanation. Was about to ask how you knew so much!

Yes spotted that, will sort out when on the pc. Using the iPad at the moment.

Regards

Chris

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

I agree with the above. It's not impossible. But the probability is pretty darned slim. And if you have any concerns, it's easy enough to go into your settings & have EN generate you a new one.