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AndrewMurphy
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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 Posted - 2010-10-11 : 05:41:02
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| Anybody getting any spam from tech-centric.net?I'm only registered in 2/3 sites and I'm wondering where they scraped my contact details. |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
30421 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-11 : 05:54:19
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No. Not yet anyway.
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-11 : 06:46:14
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I know I'm rather a detail-person, but I have a catch-all Email address "anything@mydomain.com" which I used to register all over the internet, and I always use their-domain-name@mydomain.com so I know which site sold / lost my address (and I can then easily just Bar that whole inbound address on my webserver as, once sold, it gets resold often thereafter.Surprising the number of "pucker" sites that have arrived as spam via this test. Had one I used for a household name company sending me and encourage to download an upgrade to Acrobat this week. That one is very odd as it has come from a domain name for a well known bulk mailing company, and all the embedded URLs are to the genuine Adobe site. Slightly odd is that "Adobe" is mispelled in the Subject  , and I can't see that Adobe need to mail anyone to encourage them to upgrade, Acrobat does that annoyingly frequently enough by phoning-home by itself ...So I can only conclude that the link to the opt-out, which is unique-ID'd, and back to the mailing-company's domain name, is the only SPAM element - and will be used to validate that the address is in-use, and thus attract more resell value.Which means that the household-name database has been hacked, or sold off by disgruntled employee ... |
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RickD
Slow But Sure Yak Herding Master
3608 Posts |
Posted - 2010-10-11 : 06:58:47
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Originally posted by Kristen
, Acrobat does that annoyingly frequently enough by phoning-home by itself ...
Not if you put adobe.com into your hosts file..  |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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SPAM