az billiards and spam and hacking

BHQ

BHQ

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in the last 6 months or so,
i have received numerous emails,
most are spam for an online pharmacy

2 so far this morning
from ron shirley
from art > 01rkclassic


the one thing they all have in common,
is they all come from folks email addresses that i have had contact with here on az

anyone else getting these??????????????????????
 
BHQ said:
in the last 6 months or so,
i have received numerous emails,
most are spam for an online pharmacy

2 so far this morning
from ron shirley
from art > 01rkclassic


the one thing they all have in common,
is they all come from folks email addresses that i have had contact with here on az

anyone else getting these??????????????????????
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If you communicated with them offline, meaning via e-mail, their e-mail accounts probably are infected with a worm or trojan.

I'd contact them here on AzBilliards and let them know, if they don't know already.

You may want to block their e-mail addresses for a while until they straighten it out.
 
BHQ said:
in the last 6 months or so,
i have received numerous emails,
most are spam for an online pharmacy

2 so far this morning
from ron shirley
from art > 01rkclassic


the one thing they all have in common,
is they all come from folks email addresses that i have had contact with here on az

anyone else getting these??????????????????????
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Most likely you bought something online and they sold your info to someone. I get a couple thousand a month from email addresses that don't exist. Some have names from people that I went to high school with 45 years ago. go figure

I made rules in my email program to bounce all those fake emails into the junk email folder and every now and then I delete all of them.

Once they have you it is impossible to stop it. They only way to end it is trash your email address and make another one.

If you are going to buy online from people that you are unsure of..... make a free email address on yahoo or another freebee and use it then forget it.

BTW.... nice meeting you at the WCCS.....

Kim
 
BHQ said:
in the last 6 months or so,
i have received numerous emails,
most are spam for an online pharmacy

2 so far this morning
from ron shirley
from art > 01rkclassic


the one thing they all have in common,
is they all come from folks email addresses that i have had contact with here on az

anyone else getting these??????????????????????
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I get them from Art (01rkclassic) but I consider ALL his emails to be spam.........:eek:
 
The accounts don't have to be hacked. Spammers have figured out how to make emails they sent appear to come from an address other that that which actually sends it...without having access to the account they display as sender.
 
If you are getting emails from people you know that are spammy then one of two things has happened.

1. Their computer has been compromised and is being used to send out emails to their address book. (I get them from my customers as well and I just send them an email back telling them that their system has a bug)

2. Your computer has been compromised and the virus is picking names out of your address book to send emails back to you. This is unlikely because if a virus has access to your system it doesn't need you to click on the spammy emails.

I doubt it has anything to do with AZB.

P.s. I don't have a spam problem since I have all my email going through Gmail and their spam filters are fantastic. The ones that get through I just mark as spam and that's the end of them. I don't mark my customer's emails as spam though unless I continuously get emails from them indicating that they didn't find and kill the virus. When that happens I filter them into a different folder.
 
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Here is a tip: if you use a mail service that supports plus "+" addresses (such as gmail), and your email address is myname@gmail.com, these addresses also work:

myname+foo@gmail.com
myname+whatever@gmail.com
myname+12345@gmail.com

Basically, you can place anything after the "+" and the email still comes to your inbox at myname@gmail.com.

Why is this significant? You can make throw away addresses very easily. For instance, if you purchase a product from site xyz, you can use myname+xyz@gmail.com as the email address. If in the future you start getting spam to myname+xyz@gmail.com not only do you know where it came from, you can easily filter it into a spam box.

I'm not sure what mail services support plus addresses, but just try adding "+123" in your email address and see if you receive it in your inbox.
 
mohrt said:
Here is a tip: if you use a mail service that supports plus "+" addresses (such as gmail), and your email address is myname@gmail.com, these addresses also work:

myname+foo@gmail.com
myname+whatever@gmail.com
myname+12345@gmail.com

Basically, you can place anything after the "+" and the email still comes to your inbox at myname@gmail.com.

Why is this significant? You can make throw away addresses very easily. For instance, if you purchase a product from site xyz, you can use myname+xyz@gmail.com as the email address. If in the future you start getting spam to myname+xyz@gmail.com not only do you know where it came from, you can easily filter it into a spam box.

I'm not sure what mail services support plus addresses, but just try adding "+123" in your email address and see if you receive it in your inbox.
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That's cool. I didn't know that. I have a catch-all account on my domain email and that's what I use to make throwaway email addys.

so when I am signing up to some service I usually make it the name of the service @mydomain.com and that way if I start see crap coming in on that email addy I just set up the filter to automatically delete it and never see anything sent to that addy again.
 
JB Cases said:
That's cool. I didn't know that. I have a catch-all account on my domain email and that's what I use to make throwaway email addys.

so when I am signing up to some service I usually make it the name of the service @mydomain.com and that way if I start see crap coming in on that email addy I just set up the filter to automatically delete it and never see anything sent to that addy again.
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Yep, this does not require ownership of the domain, and they are easy to make: just mention them. And if you use unique ones everywhere you can track where it comes from.
 
mohrt said:
Here is a tip: if you use a mail service that supports plus "+" addresses (such as gmail), and your email address is myname@gmail.com, these addresses also work:

myname+foo@gmail.com
myname+whatever@gmail.com
myname+12345@gmail.com

Basically, you can place anything after the "+" and the email still comes to your inbox at myname@gmail.com.

Why is this significant? You can make throw away addresses very easily. For instance, if you purchase a product from site xyz, you can use myname+xyz@gmail.com as the email address. If in the future you start getting spam to myname+xyz@gmail.com not only do you know where it came from, you can easily filter it into a spam box.

I'm not sure what mail services support plus addresses, but just try adding "+123" in your email address and see if you receive it in your inbox.
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yeah but how long before these programs start ignoring the + and anything that comes after?
 
Nostroke said:
yeah but how long before these programs start ignoring the + and anything that comes after?
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I haven't seen that happen, I don't think spammers are interested in analyzing/editing working email addresses. That would be very expensive for them. But, you could use plus addresses for everything, and carefully weed out emails sent to the main address (filter them to an inspection area), as they are probably spam when you use plus for everything. Also realize places like gmail already have very good spam filtering, so this would be additive to that system.
 
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