The university allows URLs as a “person name”, so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i’m getting bombarded by “legit” emails with a spam url as in “hi SPAM_URL”

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    11 months ago

    I think this is a tactic scammers use to make you miss some other important email like online purchases. I’d comb through those emails carefully if I were you.