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Originally Posted by KunoK
I am also not trying to put blame on anyone (except people trying to trick other people).
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Except BeBook.
Your title is "Fraudulent mail from bebook", not "Fraudulent mail from someone posing as bebook". There's a BIG difference.
As for finding out where the phishers got the email address, unless you have trackable addresses (have your own domain name and give everyone you do business with a separate address, then see which one the spammers hit) you can't. You might have mentioned your email address somewhere. It might have been stolen internally by some forum admin. It might have leaked in a number of ways. It might, like in the TJ Maxx incident, have been stolen in (or en route to) the back office. It could have something to do with ebooks, or the phishing could be totally random, like the ongoing attempts at getting me to give phishers my info for credit cards I don't own. If your email address is something moderately obvious, like
fred@somewhere.com, they may just be hitting all the ordinary names -- at one point, that was happening to a catchall of mine. Without information you don't possess, you really can't figure out who, how, or where.