Where did Coinbase get my email address from?

[Gleb Gamow]

Hi ,
Your privacy is a top priority for Coinbase, so each year, we send you a notice to keep you up to date on know how we collect, use and protect your personal information.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully and save this email for future reference.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us by emailing support@coinbase.com, visiting Coinbase Community, or by writing to us at:
Coinbase, Inc., 548 Market St., #23008, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401, (800) 343-5845.
Thank you for using Coinbase!

To be clear, I've never signed up on Coinbase's platform.

"Privacy Policy" looks like a like in the email but doesn't direct to any site.

[Gleb Gamow]

From Coinbase Thu Dec 31 00:13:25 2015
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:13:25 +0000
From: Coinbase <contact@coinbase.com>
To: <redacted>
Message-ID: <00000151f561c936-85aab53f-0734-49c6-a4b1-ef542cb83af4-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Subject: Your Annual Privacy Policy Notice
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[Gleb Gamow]

I just searched my emails and this is the first time I've ever received an email from Coinbase.

[saturn643]

Maybe it is a phishing email?

[bitcoinstarter]

Maybe it is a phishing email?

I have a feeling its this.

[Duomo]

It doesn't make sense that Coinbase would send you an email if you aren't a user. I would agree it is just a phishing email that isn't legitimate. The chances that a company has your email address is probable but for it to be one for a bitcoin related company when you have never conducted business transactions or even reached out sounds unlikely they are authentic emails from Coinbase.

[AgentofCoin]

I just searched my emails and this is the first time I've ever received an email from Coinbase.

Was the email address that you received the coinbase email also used for your bitcointalk.org account?
A hacker managed to get full access and partially downloaded the bitcointalk.org database, a few months back.
I do not believe the email contacts were hashed, so it could be possible they got your email through that.

Otherwise it is strange, if you never signed up with coinbase ever.

[Arcteryx]

Looks like they are starting to pull bitcoin address that their user base has sent or received too and have a team to information mine from there.
They are cleverer than you think.

[Soros Shorts]

Maybe it is a phishing email?

I have a feeling its this.

It is both SPF and DKIM validated. Not easy to do this unless the phishers have access to the DNS zone file for coinbase.

[tarsua]

Maybe it is a phishing email?

I have a feeling its this.

are you an idiot? did you read the email? did they ask for any longin or identification details? you should just go kill yourself

OP a site you signed up on probably sold them your email, or someone used your email to signup

[Arcteryx]

Maybe it is a phishing email?

I have a feeling its this.

are you an idiot? did you read the email? did they ask for any longin or identification details? you should just go kill yourself

OP a site you signed up on probably sold them your email, or someone used your email to signup

Information mining is big business..
and keeping them from getting your information is even bigger business.
Learn to use distraction tactics and tunneling methods such as TOR to keep off the radar and become a information hermit.

[franky1]

2 options

1. phishing site where the link for the 'privacy policy' goes to a phishing site that then asks to login
2. Gleb signed up a couple years ago to claim the 0.05btc they were offering to new signups, and never used it since.. forgetting all about it

[prodigy8]

I received also an email from coinbase don't know if they are real or just a phishing email.

The first link is not well formatted, it is http://legal/privacy maybe it was a mistake

But other links seems to be correct it links to the official coinbase website.

[justspare]

Maybe it is a phishing email?

If you never signed up for coinbase, they shouldn't have sent you an email like this. I suspect that it is a phishing link. There is really no other explanation. Unless someone figured out your email, signed up on coinbase with that email, and then hacked your email and confirmed the account. That is a pretty elaborate scheme though.

[n2004al]

Hi ,
Your privacy is a top priority for Coinbase, so each year, we send you a notice to keep you up to date on know how we collect, use and protect your personal information.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully and save this email for future reference.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us by emailing support@coinbase.com, visiting Coinbase Community, or by writing to us at:
Coinbase, Inc., 548 Market St., #23008, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401, (800) 343-5845.
Thank you for using Coinbase!

To be clear, I've never signed up on Coinbase's platform.

"Privacy Policy" looks like a like in the email but doesn't direct to any site.

It is very easy to understand. This email is not from Coinbase. Coinbase is a serious business and don't do any illegal behavior. have no need to do so. That email it is a spam or a phishing one. Who knows what was their aim in sending this kind of email. To many time are sent emails like this with or without links  which are not emails come from the sender which is named. Most of them are not well made because there must be some error in the conception of those or something were going wrong in their "project". But not few times these are perfect. I had several times such kind of emails which have copied perfectly the email of important sites (I will name only two: Payza and EgoPay (when was live)). One time I had even put my data but immediately after the put of those had a doubt and changed immediately the data given. After 1 or 2 hours that my account was blocked and when I asked the reason the answer was that my account was subject of an attempt to be hacked. It was my Payza account.

[Gleb Gamow]

2 options

1. phishing site where the link for the 'privacy policy' goes to a phishing site that then asks to login
2. Gleb signed up a couple years ago to claim the 0.05btc they were offering to new signups, and never used it since.. forgetting all about it

Definitely not #2, for I didn't try to take advantage of that offering, with this being the first time I've read about it. With the exception of trying (but never succeeding) to get bitcoins via faucets, I've never enrolled in any giveaways pertaining to any cryptocurrencies.

The email of mine used is (I believe) connected with only one user account (honestly, don't know which one sans investigating) I have in my control on this forum. I'm almost positive I haven't used that email address for anything else related to cryptos. That's why I'm finding this email sent to me so odd.

[tiggytomb]

Probably an error on their part, they could have got your email from another company as these companies like to do and sent you the wrong template, maybe they're meant to email something else like a marketing email.

You could reach out to them via their site and forward them the email to see if it was legit or not.

[Gleb Gamow]

Hi ,
Your privacy is a top priority for Coinbase, so each year, we send you a notice to keep you up to date on know how we collect, use and protect your personal information.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully and save this email for future reference.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us by emailing support@coinbase.com, visiting Coinbase Community, or by writing to us at:
Coinbase, Inc., 548 Market St., #23008, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401, (800) 343-5845.
Thank you for using Coinbase!

To be clear, I've never signed up on Coinbase's platform.

"Privacy Policy" looks like a like in the email but doesn't direct to any site.

Just received a follow-up email to let me know that they've corrected a link issue that I've pointed out in this thread. What are the odds?

[DebitMe]

I had also received this email yesterday and am glad I deleted it, not sure if a phishing scam or not.

They said they do this every year, but I don't remember receiving it last year or the year before that.

[Gleb Gamow]

I had also received this email yesterday and am glad I deleted it, not sure if a phishing scam or not.

They said they do this every year, but I don't remember receiving it last year or the year before that.

Not one iota of my vitals belong on their servers, yet somehow they have my email address gleaned from somewhere.