Spam Emails

@marlyse (1056)
Switzerland
February 7, 2007 3:11am CST
what do you think when you open your email account and you see lots of spam -emails, like casino, viagra and all that stuff you never asked for it?
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Feb 07
This genuinely infuriates me because I feel that they are violating my private territory. I often receive 7 or 8 copies of the same email with a different sender address, so they are obviously either being sold my email address or using a site that has acquired my address. I used to register for free email addresses at various ISPs, so that when spam became prolific I could simply register another email address elsewhere. Now many of these companies insist that you use their connection in order to use the emails, which rather restricts my option. Last year I bought a top level domain that reflects my own surname, which meant that I could set up mail redirect to my ISP and use the email address format of forename@surname.st, where forename and surname are my actual name. I have never used the domain for a site, and only gave the address to personal contacts, but now I receive 20 or 30 spam mails per day to that address. Who has sold my email address, my ISP or the Domain Registrar?
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@petspets (476)
• Antarctica
7 Feb 07
It could be the people working there who sold your email address. It could also be a script sent by whoever to steal your email address as the emails go to and fro. I got a new email address and spam came with the welcome email.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Feb 07
Spam with the welcome email must be a world record, and I thought that I was unlucky.
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
7 Feb 07
thats what i thought, there must be someone who solds our email adresses. i wonder where to report that. does anyone have a clue?
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@brimia (6581)
• United States
7 Feb 07
some of it makes me crazy. the spam filter gets some of it but I still receive tons in my inbox that I have to go through and delete. I can't believe anyone actually reads those emails about viagra and prescriptions...
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
7 Feb 07
i think you are right there. cant believe someone reads them
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@lena2000 (2392)
• Belgium
9 Feb 07
I hate spam - my dear - STOP that spam.......greeetttzzz...
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
9 Feb 07
you are so right, if i could find something, i think i get rich then lol
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
10 Feb 07
Hi there Sis I get very annoyed with them. I would like to know how they get the E-Mail Addresses of People. I guess we just have to keep deleting them.
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
11 Feb 07
:-) i try to find out what happens to our email adresses. and yes it seems atm its all we can do
@rurita (212)
• Indonesia
7 Feb 07
dont open, just "check" and delete :P sometimes its contain virus.
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
7 Feb 07
so true rurita, and its dangerous to open any links or attached files
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• Netherlands
24 Jun 07
I don't know exactly know how they got my email adress (probably from chain letters), but I got a lot of them in my emails. But I've tried not to open any of them especially from unknown. As I've been warning that they might send/ attach some computer virus that can caused alot of difficulties in your computer systems. It happened to one of my friend. It erased her hard disk.... So, I always try to back up all my files that I have in my computer and not open any spams !!!!
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@marlyse (1056)
• Switzerland
25 Jun 07
maybe they know your adress from participating on some contests, or other things. who knows what happens these days. you are so right, the best is to delete these unwanted emails right away without open them.
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