Originally Posted by dcortez

For some time, we have been receiving blatent brutal spam to addresses we specifically provided sponsors. Most recently, this has escalated significantly in volume.

At first we thought spammers were just guessing typical email addresses one might provide a sponsor, but we're getting spam on very unique email addresses asigned to individual sponsors (when we signed up) so that we could track this sort of thing.

Is anyone else getting spam like this?

Any ideas on how this may happen?

Are sponsors distributing their affiliate lists?

Are sponsors databases being hacked?

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