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I am an American who recently visited Europe for a vacation. I visited several countries and ended the trip in Germany. Within a week of getting back home I received an email that was in German to an email address that I have never used in a web form and have only used a few times for emailing someone (back in 2017). The email address has received zero inbound emails except for this one.<p>This is on Fastmail where I have dozens of email addresses that are context based and then to take it even further I almost always use an on-the-fly alias. I have never received an email to the email address in question which I&#x27;ve had for 10 years except for this one instance immediately after visiting Germany.<p>I traveled with a Verizon locked iPhone 17 and had Verizon international add-on. My phone has nearly no apps on it with the exception of the iOS Fastmail app and a few small open source non-bloated apps.<p>I do not believe this is a coincidence. Any thoughts on what took place, how this happened?<p>Additional thoughts and clarification: 1. I checked the raw message and it was indeed sent to an email address that I&#x27;ve never used in a web form and have never received an inbound email to. 2. The email address in question is very unique and isn&#x27;t something that could potentially just be guessed by spammers. 3. I haven&#x27;t received an email to this email in question since. 4. The email address in question I have never used an on-the-fly alias (&lt;alias&gt;@&lt;user&gt;.&lt;domain&gt;.&lt;tld&gt;) 5. I didn&#x27;t click on the link in the email but it looks to be a transactional email originated with Amazon SES to verify my email address. Subject and body is 100% in German including address information, UID (tax id?) number, etc.

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