Has anyone else gotten spam?

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Stargate199 · #1 Post by **Stargate199** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:37 am

Already this morning, I have gotten two spam emails in my inbox for someone wanting to do a URL swap on this forum. The sender claims there work for a UK lighting company. Both messages have been identical. The first one was from henlaye@gmail.com, the second is from mitch34en@gmail.com. Anyone else gotten any of these today? The message I have gotten follows

Hi,

We have visited your site http://forum.thinkpads.com/ and we'd like to trade links with you.

We can offer you a VERY high quality PR3 home page. Your link will be hosted on an quality, actual content page http://www.garmin4u.com/ rather than just a spammy link page. This page gets very good internet traffic and we know that Google prefers links placed on these types of important pages, compared to "link only" pages or directories.

Our client would like you to link back to the URL http://www.gps.co.uk/ not the URL listed above. In the past, some of our link partners have expressed a preference to link back to the same URL that is linking to them. This is both unnecessary and less valuable than the 3 way linking structure that we are proposing. Google can easily detect reciprocal linking strategies as a way of manipulating search engine rankings, where as using a 3 way linking structure is much less detectable, if at all.

Please email me when you have added our link, being sure to advise the URL location of the link you have added. Also include details of the link you would like added. We'll notify after we've added your link so you can inspect it. Please use only the link details listed below for the outgoing link.

Note: <a href=" http:// www.gps.co.uk "><b> UK Garmin GPS, armin avionics, bose headsets, aviation GPS </b></a>

Any problems / questions let me know

you can skype me at pageone-5

If any of the Admins could help investigate this and figure out who this is, that would be helpful.

Turbo Audi · #2 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:44 am

Hmm, no not yet anyway..

Stargate199 · #3 Post by **Stargate199** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:49 am

Well I did look at the first email. The one I posted was the second one. The first one is different. The basics of the email is the same but the links are different. It could be my school email has been hijacked from this forum somehow, but I would be interested if anyone has had this happen to them.

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:58 am

I haven't seen anything like that (although in my case, greylisting and Spamassassin stop absolutely everything dead in its tracks).

Also, so far as I can see, the emailers are not members here. So it must be guests looking through the forum.

... JD Hurst

#5 Post by **tomh009** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:56 am

Stargate199 wrote:Well I did look at the first email. The one I posted was the second one. The first one is different. The basics of the email is the same but the links are different. It could be my school email has been hijacked from this forum somehow, but I would be interested if anyone has had this happen to them.

This is the main reason why I don't publish my email in my profile.

#6 Post by **carbon_unit** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:57 am

The email account I use exclusively for this forum gets about 10 spams a day but never anything like that.....yet. I figure I get the spam from being a moderator. I never got any spam at this address before I was a moderator.

Stargate199 · #7 Post by **Stargate199** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:07 pm

Lets hope I didn't speak too soon, but I have not gotten another one of those emails. The email address have been put on my block list. This was strange because it is the first spam I have ever gotten from another Gmail account. The email I use here is my school email, which I have forwarded to my Gmail account. I also reported those messages as spam so hopefully those will go into my spam box if I get another one from a different email address. Guess I made the mistake of checking the display email box on my profile

. Fixed that now.

Another possibility of what happened is that a couple of days ago I accessed the forum on a school computer. It is highly probable that IE was hijacked on that computer. I tend to use the computer labs that get little use to avoid that problem. My solution, I believe I can install Firefox to my account so I can use it on any computer I log in to. Haven't seen it done, but I think I can make it work with some tweaks.

ronbo613 · #8 Post by **ronbo613** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:52 pm

I get spam in email boxes that I don't even use. Web-bots find them I reckon.

Turbo Audi · #9 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:57 pm

I do not have my email in my profile either. However, the email service I use, I have never, not once, gotten one spam email. It is the most amazing thing. Been using it for about 3 years now.

I still use my hotmail account for a few reasons, which is jammed with spam everyday.

Purcy · #10 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:21 pm

Turbo Audi wrote:I do not have my email in my profile either. However, the email service I use, I have never, not once, gotten one spam email. It is the most amazing thing. Been using it for about 3 years now.

Could you please tell me which email service you use? I pickup my MSN mail through Outlook Express and I get a lot of junk.

ronbo613 · #11 Post by **ronbo613** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:35 pm

The default email I got with my account with PacBell, then SBC, now AT&T has never been given out and have never used it. It gets about ten spam emails a day. The spam really increased when AT&T took over.
Since I never use it, I took it off my Outlook Express email accounts list. Let AT&T deal with it.

JHEM · #12 Post by **JHEM** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:13 pm

ronbo613 wrote:I get spam in email boxes that I don't even use. Web-bots find them I reckon.

Exactly. I get ~10 spam emails a day to my Comcast.net account that I have never, ever used for anything other than contacting Comcast support.

James

#13 Post by **rkawakami** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:34 pm

"I'll have your spam. I love it! I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!" (Just had to say it...)

@Purcy:
I only use two personal emails: Yahoo and AOL. Have had both for years and I don't want to give them up despite the number of spam I get in each. Yahoo typically sees about 25-40 pieces a day; AOL about a 10-15 a week. I've setup a couple of Yahoo email filters but I rely mostly on whatever Yahoo has deemed to be junk. I quickly scan the subject lines of the messages before purging the Trash folder. Sometimes I get "Hey" or "Hi" message in my Inbox but I always delete them un-read as I figure if it's important enough, the sender should have composed a literate and to-the-point subject line. (Sorry to the people who may have tried contacting me and I didn't respond

) Since I own a couple of domain names, there's mail systems that came along "free". I don't use them except to forward any incoming message to those domains back to my Yahoo or AOL account.

As far as sending email using web links, I have Thunderbird associated with that action. It's been setup to use my default DSL outgoing mail account with PacBell. No, wait... Yahoo. Uh, that's not right either... <looks at ronbo613's post> Okay, SBC, then SBC/Yahoo and now AT&T/Yahoo (I think) mail servers. And like him, I have never used that mail address to receive anything.

edit: Corrected typo, "beaked"? Sorry

Purcy · #14 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:45 pm

rkawakami wrote:"spam spam beaked beans spam (Just had to say it...)

@Purcy:
It's been setup to use my default DSL outgoing mail account with PacBell. No, wait... Yahoo. Uh, that's not right either... <looks at ronbo613's post> Okay, SBC, then SBC/Yahoo and now AT&T/Yahoo (I think) mail servers. And like him, I have never used that mail address to receive anything.

Whoa, I sort of got dizzy reading this

....... and what the heck are beaked beans??

My MSN browser through Verizon has a wonderful spam filter, I never get any junk using that mail service, BUT I hate the MSN browser; I use Firefox and Outlook Express to download my Hotmail account (MSN) and Outlook has not filters that I can find - and to think of it, that is archaic!!

Turbo Audi · #15 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:36 pm

Purcy wrote:
Turbo Audi wrote:

I use AIM.com

It is my screen name on the AOL/AIM protocol (instant messaging)

If you go to AIM.com, you can make a screen name, and an email account goes with it. It is a nice interface as well.

Also, I shipped out the CDs today!

Website · #16 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:54 pm

To my knowledge, I have NEVER gotten a spam email relating to this site. Though I did get a spam email addressed to me, but I did get one that referenced Kyocera's old email address.

Purcy · #17 Post by **Purcy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:54 pm

Turbo Audi wrote:
Also, I shipped out the CDs today!

Well now that you have a new working 'puter, you can do that; I am most indebted, you are Sweetness

NS · #18 Post by NS » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:24 am

I didn\'t even bother to read mails in my hotmail and gmail account unless it is from my someone i knew here. But usually people from here who wanted to sent me a mail would rather use the PM instead.

Have spam mails topic ranging from:

~Dear reader, you have won a rolex watch
~You have won lottery $$$
~You have won a free laptop

And all the cork and bull story about how poor their family is and demanded 1 million dollars from me to help them. And if i don\'t help them, they claimed that bad karma will befall on me and my family.

And most of the mails are junk telling me that i have a new PM or someone has replied my thread...

School email account is for my school use, gmail is for applying a new software license or sign up as a new member in other forums. So far, i did only reply BillMorrow\'s mails and some members mails. Those luckers whom i don\'t know especially people who loved to use silly email account ID to send me mails will NOT get any response from me.

I have received mails in my hotmail account from some members here asking me about the supervisor password warez and cracks. (I don\'t reply to these mails too!)

Don\'t believe, see for yourself: http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1830 ... d01yn4.gif

---------------------------------------------------------------
Koh Boon Hui (NS)
T30, T41p, R52, R60, X60, T60

JHEM · #19 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:39 am

Purcy wrote:My MSN browser through Verizon has a wonderful spam filter, I never get any junk using that mail service, BUT I hate the MSN browser; I use Firefox and Outlook Express to download my Hotmail account (MSN) and Outlook has not filters that I can find - and to think of it, that is archaic!!

If you hate the MSN browser, why use it?

Just set OE to download your mail from the Verizon.net server.

As to removing SPAM, I've used Mailwasher for years. I happen to use the "Pro" paid version, but the basic version is a freebie!

James

Purcy · #20 Post by **Purcy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:19 am

JHEM wrote: If you hate the MSN browser, why use it?

Just set OE to download your mail from the Verizon.net server.

James

Hi James, No I don't use the MSN browser, I only use Firefox and I was looking for something other than Outlook Express to grab my mail, since OE doesn't seem to have any junk filters that I can find. Sorry if I didn't make that clear

#21 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:29 pm

If you're after junk filters, Mozilla's Thunderbird has an excellent built-in system. It's the perfect mate for Firefox.
It's very similar in use to Outlook Express, but is a lot less prone to attract virus-infections etc. Been using it for years now.
Highly recommended.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
When you install it, it automatically transfers all your stuff from OE.
You only need to enter your password for incoming and outgoing mail once, then let Tbird remember it for future use.

Purcy · #22 Post by **Purcy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:34 pm

Hello Realblackstuff - thanks for that suggestion. I downloaded Thunderbird a couple of years ago, but unfortunately it will not work with internet mail, which MSN is, just IMAP and POP3. I agree it looked like a neat app.

Stargate199 · #23 Post by **Stargate199** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:36 pm

Update:
Good News! Have had no more messages from whoever sent them. I really hate spam bots (you should see how many spam emails I get a day that get filtered

) So now that the problem, this thread can be locked is so desired.

Purcy · #24 Post by **Purcy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:44 pm

That's great news. Sorry if I got this thread off topic.

Website · #25 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:24 pm

I have to empty my wife's yahoo email address every few days, and there are generally about 1400 junkmail messages. Granted they are filtered out, but she gets A LOT!!

anthean · #26 Post by **anthean** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:29 pm

Back when I had a Hotmail account, it used to fill up with spam. At my current ISP (3 years now), the only "spam" I get is stuff I was foolish enough to sign up for.

Actually, much of the TechRepublic stuff I get is pretty good, but I often have neither the time nor inclination to read it.

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