alt Hacker NewsI highly doubt this is connected
Usually this is from LinkedIn, GitHub, etc scraping... There are databases where they just guess and verify emails too
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Foobar8568 • today at 6:26 AM
Don't forget amazon.
paulddraper • today at 12:54 AM
Yeah. This information is insanely easy to get.
98% I look at a LinkedIn profile, my $SALES_LEAD Chrome extension shows me their email + phone.
(To be clear, not from LinkedIn, but given their name/city/company.)
OP literally described a timescale for (not spam) to (spam) and you described a few possible options (basically a knee jerk reaction, with no evidence).
The medical world uses the terms indications and contraindications. I think we in IT could do with a similar process/procedure.