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Originally Posted by GigoloShawn
That somewhat depends on who handles your mail. I don't even have a 'real' email address. I forward my email as an alias to one that nobody would even attempt on without a brute force attack on any publically-accessable MTA, and just set my mailto and reply-to to the alias. For my personal email, I block access by class C, and also change the password often. You can't do either of those with public mail servers.  |
All of that fails if the server your mail is on is compromissed, and that's usually the target, not your, or anyone elses email in particular. That's why using public big mails like gmail is a good thing in many cases.
Why they go "personal" with AMP is the case that someone got his personal information from somewhere, along with documents (or can forge them in a good manner) and they are trying to cash in on that (they mention in the email they would send the proper docs). So they got your personal info (name, address, phone etc etc) from somewhere.