If there is a number associated to your mail, they have your telephone number. Apparently this site show your email as well or is badly protected. Never answer an unknown caller with the mail associated here. In contrast you can use a telephone number to attract potential attackers and use WireShark logs.
Yeah whenever you have an email from a so-called Parrot Dev, u just need to send and email like suk a dik. It worked for me everytime lol
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How would they get your telephone number though, I don’t recall signing up with my tel number to this forum?
Some countries/companies use a [email protected] for their customers’ email. I don’t know who “they” are in beatmotorpull’s accusation.
Sounds like he’s warning outside hackers are supposedly, somehow getting your email from this forum, and if it is an email with a phone number as part of its email address, supposedly according to him, they can call such people acting like devs or other phishers and scammers.
Such accusations of compromised email addresses are outside my abilities to side either way.
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If you can and if it’s allowed, then you should create new online accounts with e-mail aliases, such as from Simple Login or addy[.]io. The paid plans of the aliasing services mentioned either offer a higher max number of aliases or an unlimited number, compared to their respective free plans. Alternatively, you could self-host these services. These tools are recommended by privacy/security experts, such as Privacy Guides and Michael Bazzell.
This is one general tool you can use to create new e-mail addresses that are not associated with your phone number but you still control. (This is not to be confused with disposable e-mail services, as you are generally expected to keep each e-mail aliases and only turn them off individually if one is “burned” and attracts too much spam.) They can also help you track more easily where possible leaking of your e-mail address has occurred.
Why would they even contact you? To give you “ParrotOS Premium” for $3.99/month that isn’t GNU/Linux at all? To have you join HackTheBox? I don’t see the viability nor point of this in real phishing attempts.