Trevor Cordes (and myself) use vendor specific email addresses when we sign up for services (it's easy when you control your own domain).

Manitoba Hydro sends me email to 'manitobahydro@yourowndomain.com'
Shaw send me email to 'shaw@yourowndomain.com'
...etc...

For several months now, both Trevor and myself have noticed spammers using our Manitoba Hydro vendor specific email addresses.

So how (and when) did Manitoba Hydro get their email accounts list hacked?

If so, what else got hacked? Our per-authorized Debit information?!?

If not, then did they actually sell their email accounts lists to spam lists?

I can see spammers sending generic *names* to various domains (ie. trevor@yourowndomain.com or brad@yourowndomain.com) but I can not see spammers sending 'manitobahydro' to various domains without some per-initializing from somewhere.

Just my rant for the week/day/hour...

...P.S. If anyone wants to meet some desperate Russian chick feel free to believe in the spam...

===
Bradford C. Vokey

Treasurer
Manitoba Unix User Group
===

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Allow me to introduce ... to you.
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:14:40 +0300
From: mstanton@packeteer.com
To: manitobahydro@fsi.ca 


Greetings! How's it going? I found out your email in the agency of 
acquaintances. They also told me you are not married and you wish to meet 
a sweetheart. I decided to try to email you and get to know you better. I 
will tell you some information about myself. I am 28 years old. No kids. 
I would like to meet a sane and responsible person. I do not need to play 
any online games, I would like to have serious relationship only. If you 
are interested to know more about my life, please tell me and I will be 
happy to tell you more info about myself and I will also send you photos!

My private email: lina-fo@rambler.ru

Elena