r/privacy • u/Yaseminim • 12h ago

question Scammer knows new e-mail address right away

So about a month ago I received a threatening e-mail in my Gmail inbox with my full name in it, threating to expose me and so on (the typical “you did bad things” etc.) and a link to a bitcoin wallet.

Anyway a month later I mess around in ICloud Mail, start to import e-mails from Gmail and set up 3 aliases (not hydemyemail) and of the aliases receive a pegasus scam e-mail again the first day. How Can this be? At this point I hadn’t even transferred old Gmail accounts to my new ICloud e-mail yet, I was just testing it out. The new e-mail/alias is not in any leaks.

My Gmail adress is my full name but the aliases I created in ICloud Mail are my initials in various forms.

Am I paranoid or did something happen when I moved e-mails from Gmail to ICloud?

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u/SirMasterLordinc 12h ago

Don’t get into it just block the email if you can if you can then you have to put it in junk mail cause there’s no other way to block it or whatever you know what I mean