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| Thread ID: 70595 | 2006-07-09 01:00:00 | Possible to obtain e-mail add from web site browsing? | Shortcircuit (1666) | Press F1 |
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| 469515 | 2006-07-09 01:00:00 | Boy am I having a grumpy week :( Did a clean install of Windows 6 days ago on my second box (with ZA/AVG etc). Last night I was browsing the web looking for info on setting up Raid arrays... just general tech sites, no logon required. This morning I received my first ever spam e-mail and you guessed it- offering tuiton on Raid setups. Considering that my e-mail add is known to maybe 5 people, is a very unusual address and I got the e-mail after searching for the exact same thing within hours this spam is all a bit suspect. So, pure coincidence or something more? Also the e-mail said something like: We have taken great measures to ensure that we are in complete compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003... and have already removed your e-mail address from our subscription list. I think one e-mail is still spam :mad: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 469516 | 2006-07-09 02:12:00 | Wot browser were you using? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 469517 | 2006-07-09 02:16:00 | Firefox | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 469518 | 2006-07-09 03:48:00 | Considering that my e-mail add is known to maybe 5 peopleI sold it for 15 cents :thumbs: | Greg (193) | ||
| 469519 | 2006-07-09 04:05:00 | Is Outlook Express your default eMail client? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 469520 | 2006-07-09 04:10:00 | Ya didnt give me your addy....:p :( favouratism..... beetle :rolleyes: |
beetle (243) | ||
| 469521 | 2006-07-09 04:48:00 | Greg: if you put it on Trade Me you could have gotten 20c :thumbs: beetle: you obviously didn't bid high enough! :2cents: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 469522 | 2006-07-09 04:49:00 | Nope, it was a coincidence . . . However, from observation it seems that spam managers get an email suffix such as @xtra . co . nz then just add random characters to the string (well not random, but using a generator) and fire of zillions of them eg: aaa@xtra . co . nz aab@xtra . co . nz etc so eventually your address will get hit . Thinking on from there if the email address doesn't exist then the spammer will get a "cannot find" type error returned to them from the server If they get that, they could then delete that name from their list (maybe automatically) and the emails that don"t generate an error message by default must be real . Such emails could be onsold or used adnauseum . Even if they don't get an error returned the low cost in time and money of sending a million emails means they don't care about weeding out the unproductive emails from their lists . (now if this program doesn't exist you certinaly could make one that does these things) I read somewhere, of a spammer in America who got arrested who i think was sending out 16 million emails at a time (have to check that detail) So don't stress out over spam, if your on the net, and you have a popular address (@clear . net . nz for example) you will probably eventually get hit . |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 469523 | 2006-07-09 04:52:00 | Guess it was a million to 1 then netchicken... right address, right subject, right time. I really should buy more lotto tickets, then I might be able to afford to buy it back off beetle! |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 469524 | 2006-07-09 04:56:00 | seems to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i just may have it after all then . . . . . . how much should i sell it for? and who else wants it then? :p :lol: beetle |
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