prodev opened this issue on Jul 08, 2007 · 411 posts
Acadia posted Sun, 30 December 2007 at 10:59 AM
Quote - Glad to see everyone is getting a lot less spam now. I think this is because it's all comming to my inbox now!!!! I'm getting over 100 spam e-mails EVERY DAY all from the US and all from the sellers of Viagra and Pen*s enlargement sites!!!!!!!!!
DAMN these spammers!!!!!!
That doesn't sound like the spam that I was getting, and from what I can see in the thread, what most were getting. The spam that I have been getting to my exclusive renderosity only email address are phishing type emails.
Banks, lotto winnings, lawyers of long lost relatives, etc etc. I haven't received a single Viagra or the penis enlargement emails that you are referring to. I do get those in my "spam only" email that I use when a website asks for an email address.
On the topic of emails, I am still getting phishing emails. Not as many are making it past gmail's spam filter: about 1 or 2 every day or two, but I'm still finding between 2 and 9 per day in my spam folder at gmail. Now granted this is down considerably from what it was ...dozens per day at one time, but they are still coming through.
I think tomorrow I will start the New Year off with yet another new email created for this site only, and see if I still get any spam.
Some have said that they found as soon as they made an MP purchase that they started to get spam.
I'll create my new email and give it 1 month of only using it for posting and receiving notifications. I won't make a purchase during that time. At the end of January I'll make a purchase. That should indicate if there is a problem with just the main site or if the leak is coming through the MP area somehow.
I'm running out of email name ideas! Any suggestions?
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able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
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