Re: Rogue third party emailers
From: LVTravel (trash_at_dd.com)
Date: 03/01/04
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:31:25 -0500
It's now too late but others may benefit from this. NEVER put your real
email address in the account information or message when logging onto or
sending messages to a newsgroup. There are plenty of people who have
programs that scan these and other ngs to extract email addresses of
senders.
I mistakenly used a computer, that I normally used only to do emails and
never to go to the message boards (ngs), to send a message to a microsoft ng
ONE TIME ONLY and within 2 days I got over 150 spam messages. Had to dump
the email address after that and that is a pain.
"Rick" <malanchu@concentric.net> wrote in message
news:3a4401c3fe24$10998480$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I believe that an unauthorized third party spammer has or
> spammers have enabled themselves to send their spam
> emails to others using my email address as the sender.
> The reasons I beleive this are:
> 1. I occasionally receive email from my own email
> address, eve though I did not send it. When I opened one
> (the first time or two - I just delete them now) I
> realized that another sender was somehow routing the spam
> through my computer to other people, and the "from" line
> on their computers would show my email address.
> 2. While on line I occasionally experience my Norton
> anti-virus screen popping up and indicating that it is
> checking my outgoing email for viruses, when I hadn;t
> sent any email out for hours.
> 3. I occasionally get a message that my email didn't go
> through, when I hadn't sent an email for hours. On
> checking I determine that the invalid adress was not one
> that I had sent to. Moreover, clickable attachments
> sometimes appear, although I know better than to open any
> of them.
> 4. Any suggestions out there on how I can expunge these
> rogue spammers from setting up shop on my hard drive?
> Thank you.
>
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