[amayausers] Re: OT: Spam emails from a supplier
- From: "John Yaglenski" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:32:49 -0400
HI Steve:
I run a small web hosting operation and along with that mail servers. I can
tell you, things like this have happened to me all the time - only in some
cases, I'll even get mail to addresses that I have NEVER used or given out
to anyone.
Such is life in this day and age. I wouldn't necessarily come to the
conclusion that anyone has been hacked - your isp or even broder - or that
they sold your addresses.
John
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Cohen
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 8:59 AM
To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amayausers] Re: OT: Spam emails from a supplier
I don't think that is the case Jeff. I have spam into this account and the
one that is listed as contact on my website. (The one on my website gets
spam everyday because it is publicly listed). I have a total of about 20
email address and these are the only 2 that got spam. If a spammer did
collect every email address on the email server, why wouldn't the other 18
email address be getting spam? If I was a spammer, I would send email to
every email address I collected from a server, not just a couple of them. I
looked at the emails that went to Broder and my general account and none are
the same email subject or body (or IP addresses). It just doesn't make
sense. I guess I'll see what happens over the weekend to see if spam goes to
the other accounts.
From: "Jeff Banks" <banksje@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 06:38:52 -0600 Steve,
More than likely the Host of your domain and email got hacked, not Broder.
Think about it, the number of Email addresses on a public mail server are
going to be many times the number of email addresses stored in Broder
records. I may be wrong, but why would a spammer go after a little when a
lot is available?
Jeff Banks
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