I played this game when it was called Horizons a couple years ago. When I signed up for Horizons, I created a new "disposable" email account that I used solely to sign up for the game and these forums.
On Tuesday of this week, my special Horizons email account received a spam email from "Sim Splendid" about downloadable houses you can get for Sims 2. (?!?!?) I know this was sent to my Horizons account, because my email provider tells me which email address the sender used to send me mail. I have never used that address to send an email to anyone, have never published it anywhere on the internet, or used it to sign up to any other site. (Doing so would make disposable addresses pointless.)
Anyway, I'm curious if anyone else here has gotten spam on the email account they use for Istaria? (The Sims 2 spam is the first and only I've noticed on this address.)
I use these disposable addresses in order to identify businesses who sell their customers' email addresses, so I can 1) Delete the address when it starts getting spam and 2) Decide whether I should ever do business with that company again. I actually really liked Horizons, and only quit when I was distracted by RL and another game. But there's no way I'm signing back up if they're selling our email addresses to spammers.