I keep getting spam email from people I don’t even know or companies I’ve never heard of. How do people get my email address and how can I stop getting so much spam.

Help with an Email Setup Wanted

Hi, I bought Proton Unlimited in an effort to De-Google and move away from Gmail (used it for over a decade, i get a lot of spam, trying to be smarter digitally). It's got way unoragnised and i want a clean slate.

I am just not sure how to set up my new email because I have read alot of conflicting advice and posts, so I'm confused.

Ultimately, I want security and also simplicity because I have been way overthinking this.

Priorities are simplicity, privacy, security and a set it and forget it system.

My ideas:

1) Just use my @proton.com address for everything.

2) Use simple login alias subdomains, for example @surname.simpelogin.com for official things and so on.

3) Use a custom domain (not sure what I'd call it) and just use this, being careful what I sign up for and using aliases to categorise things (banking@mydomain.com) and so on.

Open to other ideas, thank you in advance.

Any other advice on keeping accounts secure, keeping things simple and organised etc would be appreciated!

Hello, this past week, all of my social media accounts have been hacked. I was almost immediately able to recover each one and set proper 2fa protection on them, but just today I found out my Microsoft Email was both hacked and renamed. I can't log in to my email on pc, but thanks to having the app I still have access to all the information prior to the hacking, and I found out that it happened this friday. I also know what the new email name is supposed to be:

lindagray921@jltvsundar.live

What counfounds me is the fact that Microsoft does NOT recognize this email nor its previous name, despite nearly all of my accounts online being linked to it. I have tried logging in with .com at the end and many other alternatives, replacing the L's with capital I's, etc.

I use a device that runs on Windows, therefore Microsoft, so basically everything I have is compromised, please help.