If you reply to these spamming low lifes, you just end up getting more useless spam because replying confirms that your e-mail account is active. As for their real e-mail address, they use relay servers to mask their origins and use other tricks to spoof their real identity. They will also include you on other spam mail lists. These low lifes use web crawler software to fetch e-mail addresses from your web sites. The list goes on and on.
Best way is to set your e-mail filters to exclusive and only allow e-mail from your friends and family to get through, or don’t open anything you are unfamiliar with or suspect.[/quote]
E-mail filters? I did stop reading them. Once I realized that asking to leave was useless, I stopped and got a better e-mail name (film noir rocks… and no, that’s not the name itself).
Now that the paranoid thought of them getting my name from a website has entered my mind, it’s making me wonder if I should stop joining websites. Too bad.
O.K. This came along with my other e-mail today. It is Yahoo’s reply to the report I’ve sent them about that insident with my Yahoo mail:
Hi
Thanks for your email
Mass distribution of unsolicited email messages, or “spamming”, violates
the Yahoo! Terms of Service (TOS).
After investigation, we have determined that this email message did not
originate from the Yahoo! Mail system. It appears that the sender of
this message forged the header information to give the impression that
it came from the Yahoo! Mail system. The “yahoo.com” address associated
with the email does not exist.
Yahoo! takes the operation of Yahoo! Mail very seriously. Unfortunately,
there is no control over messages sent through other email systems and
it’s not possible to preempt the misuse of the Yahoo! name in forged
headers. Yahoo! cannot technically prevent its domain from being forged
in the headers of an email message. However, actions have been taken
against companies in an effort to prevent further forgery of the Yahoo!
brand and to seek damages as appropriate. Individuals are strongly
discouraged from forging the Yahoo! domain in the future and appropriate
action will be taken as necessary.
Regards
Yahoo! UKIE Customer Care
Which confirms what my friend told me, satisfies me and restores my trust to Yahoo.com!!!
Not to mention that it’s enough proof, in case I was held responsible of spreading viruses, from some idiot!!!
Still, I continue to hate crackers, spammers… etc.
Hey, in the beginning of my time here in Elysiun.com I had my email address visible for all users. And suddenly I got about 2 to 3 virus emails with this virus every day!! After a week I changed my email and hid it in the forum. And I didn’t logically get one any more. That was probably the same stupid bloody f***** :x that sent me those emails, too! But I didn’t have a yahoo email account.
what a bastard!! we should find that ass, and kick him off, and spam his email account, kill his server (if he has one), fuck his mom - or not - and stick a firecracker up his ass!
hotmail has an option in your profile which is called something like ‘share this adress’. By default it is on.
So put it off. I did it, and I only get about 2 spam mail per week in stead of 3-5 a day before.
