Vendor's PGP email looks like an actual gmail account.

Browsing today, I added a new vendors PGP to my keyring. Normally, an obvious fake email address associated with the key pops up. Not this one. It looks like a personal email account. Should I send them a message to ask and try to help them out? Anyone else have this happen to them?


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[16 Points] ErraticWire:

If there's a Facebook account associated with the email, notify the vendor ASAP. He may hook you up for helping him protect his own ass.

Alternate plan: move to his city, "randomly" bump into him in public, become friends/roommates. Then who's paying all the bills? Vendor-roommate.


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Probably a burner/inactive/dummy/maybe not even real account. Or perhaps they're just foolish. Your call hombre.


[1 Points] deluser:

I'd give them a heads up, probably from a fresh acct. Just shoot them a message; "Hey, found the facebook associated with the email you use for pgp, pretty cute ;)" or something like that. It's probably fake but you never know, vendors aren't opsec gods and everyone makes mistakes (esp when you're high.)


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I once imported a vendors PGP key and their email was alex.t.shulgin@gmail.com, and not knowing who they were I was like wtf, is this for real? So I googled the name and got a good laugh at it.