This spammer told an university that i agree to get email communications

Moonrise2473@feddit.it to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 315 points –

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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I think you should blurr your phone too

luckily it's a random number that the spambot inserted in the form

Possibly not actually his phone, could just be the scam's phone

I'm totally signing him up for the all my favorite shelters... they send cat and dog photos to your phone.

That would be extremely dangerous for someone with an overactive sense of empathy and limited impulse control.