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Disturbing - Receiving Spam Emails

Date: Sat, 11/22/2008 - 15:31

Submitted by DebtCruncher
on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 15:31

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I'm not sure what to make of this, but I am receiving e-mail spam which may be related somehow with this site...

I use yahoo's disposable email addresses, and I setup one a long time ago just for this site. In other words, 'rosyjoe0902-debtcare@yahoo.com' is not really my email address, but yahoo knows to forward any mail sent there to my real email. I have never given the email out or used it to signup for anything other than this site.

I am starting to get spam emailed to that address. Below is a screenshot of the spam sent to me so far.

I don't think DCC would sell off its' members email addresses. But my only other thought is that these spammers are somehow collecting email addresses off of this site. Granted, any post we make has an email link at the bottom, but I thought that was only visible to registered members and not guests.

Any thoughts??


Are you talking about the quick message alerts that are on there? I used to get them anytime I had a message here, but that stopped quite some time ago, and I thought it wouldn't do that anymore.

I have gottem spam from debt consolidation companies, etc., but figured it wasn't from here since I get spam with other stuff in it..karen


lrhall41

Submitted by Bossy4455 on Sun, 11/23/2008 - 09:06

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Bossy - everything in that list was sent to my DCC address. I know the quick messages are from here, and the topic reply notification...

Overall it's not a big deal, same as any other spam I get in my regular email. I will mark it as spam and hopefully it won't come back.

My whole point was just that I have never given that email out to anyone except registering for this site. So I wondered how QuizRocket even got that email address to send spam to...


lrhall41

Submitted by DebtCruncher on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 17:30

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Hi Debtcruncher,

It's quite strange that you've received spam mails in your DebtCC email because email Ids are available to the moderators only, not even to all registered members.

Thanks for sharing this problem with us. I have taken a note on it and have communicated this problem to our tech team. They are trying to find out any glitch in our system and rectify it so that such problem doesn't occur again.

Jason


lrhall41

Submitted by Jason on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 21:24

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