The Spam Diaries

News and musings about the fight against spam.
 by Edward Falk

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Name and Shame: Bitly sells me out.

 I just got a couple of those "please open this invoice" spams. It was sent to a tagged email address I'd only ever given to Bitly (a URL shortening service).

So either Bitly sold my contact info to scammers, or their security is substandard.