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Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

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This might be sheer coincidence but I personally believe not. So, I get email spam, just like anyone else. Plenty of it.

I uninstall PartyPoker and 3 hours later I get the first Poker related spam email to that email address ever.

Ok, could be coincidence.

This week I get an electronic notification for a package being sent by the US Postal Service. A few days after I get a malicious attachment in an email from 'FedEx'...typical scam email. First I have EVER received on this email address.

What the crap?!

Sheer coincidence or someone selling data, perhaps from the inside as cash on the side? Has anyone else experienced such strange coincidental spam despite services agreeing not to pass on your data?
 
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I get bloody loads.

I can't begin to explain how much of a mistake it was to use my private email to sign up to the Voucher Cloud app.
 
I get one every few days from people pretending to be banks like Cahoot, Santander and Halifax saying I have a new security message and to log in to my account :rolleyes:

TBH, it would help if I actually HAD a Cahoot, Santander or Halifax account in the first place :p
 
I've had a Hotmail account since the dawn of the internet and I only get one or two spam emails every couple of days. When I do, I never see them as they get spanked into the junk mail folder.
 
That's what happens to the emails I mentioned above with GMail... Their spam filters are quite good.
 
If companies are selling my info, shouldn't I get some money sent my way? I mean, without me and my info they wouldn't make any money.

Spam emails are just annoying, and tbh I never even think about opening stuff that goes into my junk email or from an address I don't recognise
 
Jay794 said:
If companies are selling my info, shouldn't I get some money sent my way? I mean, without me and my info they wouldn't make any money.

Spam emails are just annoying, and tbh I never even think about opening stuff that goes into my junk email or from an address I don't recognise
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That will be the day. :D
 
Celestial Nostos said:
This is why I always do "[email protected]"

Can find out who sold me out, block it and be done.
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Hah! Just ordered something online and didnt realise you could do that. I've added the site name to my email address. Winrar of an idea! I'm sure a few places in the past have been the cause of some spam emails so going forward it will be good to know when signing up to buy things, etc.
 
Edrof said:
I've had a Hotmail account since the dawn of the internet and I only get one or two spam emails every couple of days. When I do, I never see them as they get spanked into the junk mail folder.
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REALLY :confused:

I don't know when I created my first HoTMaiL account but it certainly predated Y2K. Sometime after Microsoft acquired it and renamed it as just Hotmail, it was hacked.

As a result of this, an enormous email spam list was built up - I know because my then Hotmail account is on it. I created a new Hotmail account and subsequently have had no real issues with spam. Pretty much everyone who had a Hotmail account before Microsoft allowed it to be compromised is on a spam list.

As it happens, Hotmail is pretty good at identifying spam and putting it into the Junk folder - occasionally too good ;)


As a side issue, I have major problems with idiots who circulate hilarious joke emails with huge CC: lists and containing the email addresses from all the people who have previously forwarded the email - if people have to circulate this junk, WHY CAN'T THEY LEARN TO USE BCC:?
 
only site I have came across that does this is aerlingus.

Soon as you sign up to their site you get a whole load of spam (this was a few years ago)

I even set up an account to test. Someone should try it again see what happens...

I also wonder if other sites run scripts to search for your e-mail addresses in cookies.

Does G-mail or yahoo store your email address in a cookie?
 
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