9 pointsby hardenedmetapod20 days ago3 comments
  • altairprime19 days ago
    Sounds exactly like a common website “significantly cheaper” scam, only on Poshmark slash Etsy slash Amazon, where the seller is provided your contact info in order to ship you things. Did they have a history of completed sales? Did you ask any questions and get a response (or not) before purchasing? Someone always ends up being the first rube at any online marketplaces from a scam seller who hasn’t been reported yet, at least when said marketplaces aren’t doing serious in-person identity verification first, and this time you’re the lucky one.
  • chrisjj20 days ago
    > So the question here is what part of their system is so fundamentally broken that scammers instantly get my email?

    Perhaps none. Did the T&Cs permit this disclosure?

    • hardenedmetapod20 days ago
      Not that I can see offhand. It mentions using your email for correspondence and copyright disputes.
      • chrisjj19 days ago
        I'd say odds on Poshmark leaking your address to the seller.

        The fact you got spam so soon makes me wonder, did you get your goods?

  • myself24820 days ago
    Yikes. I wonder if there's a way to differentiate between the bad-seller and the poshmark-is-compromised case.
    • hardenedmetapod20 days ago
      There's a third case that I never considered.

      Google SSO is the promoted way of signing in and it auto assigns your email to the username without any special characters so scammers could just be scraping new accounts and making a best guess at the email.

      Lame.

      • chrisjj19 days ago
        I'd call that the first case and the second case. Lame indeed.
    • chrisjj20 days ago
      Sure. Be a seller.