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Email Spam with provider address - Trouble
twiceborn911 8 Reviews 490 reads
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Sooo, for whatever reason, someone hacked in Yahoo servers and used my contact list to SPAM email crap.  Unfortunately, this email (which has a random name I picked) has my family, friends, and provider emails.   I also have a separate email account for work/professional stuff but sometimes use the other alias for friends.   That means when a SPAM email was sent, it had the email addresses of some providers.  Names like, sexyasian, etc.  Well, I hope nobody decided to google the email address because if they did, it takes them to a escort link.  

SHIT

A email was sent to my significant other, where I accessed her account to delete the SPAM email and delete it in the trash section as well.  That particular email had 3 provider emails and if any of them were googled, I'm in trouble.

Lesson learn.  Separate your email accounts or at the very least, delete your contact list.

I'm praying nobody finds out.  If it did occur, my excuse will be, "I look at porn and click on a lot of links, I've even subscribed to some with that email.  It must have got intermixed or something."  Significant other knows I look at porn.   Any other excuses I could use??????

Shit.

Anybody and esp. spammers can spoof any email address. Let me know your SO's email address and I'll send her an email from [email protected].

From my experience always keep your "real life" and "hobby" emails separate. Emphasis on the ALWAYS.

That way if spam gets sent it's only to ladies you have already emailed or added to contacts. Ladies or gents who get the spam mail please (please) reply saying "hi, I think your email sent spam, change your password, that should fix it" and it normally does.

:)


Just my .02 from past experiences using hotmail, gmail and yahoo accounts over the years.

The password change trick usually works.

Most people won't reply to a spam message from a known sender but I like to reply and mention the password thing. Otherwise people usually don't know their mail box is sending spam.



Good luck and be safe
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matuschek180 reads

Good advice.  I also reply with the "change your password" advice if the spam is from someone I know.

Another thing I do is keep one of my "real life" addresses on my hobby account contact list.  Thus, when I once got a spam message from "myself," I immediately knew to change the password and didn't have to wait on the "kindness of strangers" to clean up the account.

Happened to me too. Bad enough if it is a separate email, can't imagine the stress if its a mixed email.

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