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| Thread ID: 73891 | 2006-11-04 21:43:00 | IRD's spamming me! | Caesius (3758) | Press F1 |
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| 496426 | 2006-11-04 21:43:00 | I'm shocked. A couple of weeks ago I set up a new email address for a company because I had to include an email on an IR596. Obviously the email address had never seen the light of day. I received my first email a few days after I sent the IRD forms back; it was a generous offer to "improve my love life". The next day I received more exciting offers - this time a business proposal from some god-forsaken country... Nothing from IRD. What I'm trying to figure out is how a spammer got hold of this address! It's not a simplistically-worded one, and NO ONE bar IRD has ever seen it! What ya think? EDIT: Ok, TelstraClear has obviously seen it, it's a .clear.net.nz addy. But them? Can't be. |
Caesius (3758) | ||
| 496427 | 2006-11-04 22:05:00 | As an experiment set up another address, tell no one and wait and see how long it takes to get spammed. For all you know someone is already sending spam to every possible clear.net.nz address they can think of. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 496428 | 2006-11-04 22:20:00 | Depends on the name you chose. Some are very easy to guess and you get spam regardless of if you sent e-mail or never sent one in your life. I always try and pick one that no one can guess. My original at Paradise was a very common name and I got heaps of spam. However when I changed to my own domain name and such and my IHug e-mail are very rare and I don't get any from IHug at all and only have just started getting the odd one on my domain. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 496429 | 2006-11-05 01:45:00 | Depends on the name you chose. Some are very easy to guess and you get spam regardless of if you sent e-mail or never sent one in your life. I always try and pick one that no one can guess. My original at Paradise was a very common name and I got heaps of spam. However when I changed to my own domain name and such and my IHug e-mail are very rare and I don't get any from IHug at all and only have just started getting the odd one on my domain. Yep, i found when i got my own domain my spam dropped to nothing too...and now i don't have to change my @#$#$%$ address every time i swap isp/... |
taxboy4 (579) | ||
| 496430 | 2006-11-05 03:15:00 | I created an alias from my Xtra account and started getting spam the first day. Not even xtra's spam filters try to block it :( Whats weird is I receive email where the "To:" address is not even my email address (same goes for the headers). |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 496431 | 2006-11-05 06:38:00 | I created an alias from my Xtra account and started getting spam the first day. Not even xtra's spam filters try to block it :( Whats weird is I receive email where the "To:" address is not even my email address (same goes for the headers). Not weird at all, the spammers use the BCC field, so what you see is normal. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 496432 | 2006-11-05 09:51:00 | Not weird at all, the spammers use the BCC field, so what you see is normal. Ahh yes that would be it. Cheaky monkeys :mad: |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 496433 | 2006-11-05 21:06:00 | XTRA is hopeless for spam but I know someone with a Paradise account (very unusual username and very ltd surfing habits) that gets heaps, too. I tell people to get a gmail account - zero spam if you don't spread the address around. My wife's gmail account hasn't had any spam in over a year. I get a fair bit of spam into my gmail account (use it on newsgroups etc) but at least their filter stops virtually all of it. | linw (53) | ||
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