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 What the fuck is Warpcast and why is someone using my email address to register an account on it?
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 I got that too this morning. 
 tons of this happening after the various hacks recently. I get a few per day on my one email address 
 Got one as well… 
 Warpcast is a client for Farcaster, a new type of social network. It's decentralized, like email, which means you control your account. It's an ever-growing community of interesting, curious people from all over the world. Connect with others by creating a profile and posting public messages.

Features of Warpcast
- Create a Farcaster account and public profile
- Post and reply to public messages
- Find other users and visit public profiles 
 You just copied and pasted that from the app description. Where’s the part where they admit it’s powered by a shitcoin? 
 No idea, i do not use this app.
Just shared what i found.

#nostr is my home
 
 Good info but doesn’t explain why so many people are getting that verification email when it seems they didn’t sign up for it? 
 Seems obvious to me, they’re buying lists of email addresses of bitcoin and crypto users found in hacks to try to prop up their enrollment numbers. 
 This. I received it in the email leaked on the ledger hack.
It is a very sad marketing strategy after so many millions invested on the platform. 
 That’s some truly shady shit. 
 I got that email too…. much wow… 
 It’s being reported to be a phishing scam. Again, if they didn’t rely on email for registration, this couldn’t happen.
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 Daniel is a less technical user. 😀 
 Yeah, I’m big dumb. 
 That is a strange case for sure.
Maybe a dump of known email addresses on the deepweb 
 It's a streaming service for Star Trek. 
 i've got the same mail, no idea what this shit is 
 Hmm, I got this too... 🤔 
 It took weeks, but I finally moved almost all my online accounts off of Gmail and behind an anonymous email proxy. It should make it easy to find out where your email address leaked from. I suggest everyone do the same. 
 If you've been doing this for a few years, don't you end up with like a hundred proxy addresses? How do you know which one you used? Are they created on the fly, like "Terry+Ledger@anonemail.com"  
 I save them in my password manager which keeps track of which websites I use it with. The email proxy service also keeps track for you. 
 And yes, generated on the fly.