[TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails

  • From: Doug Keller <dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:04:41 -0500

Don't EVER click that unsubscribe link!!! They never work. All they do 
is verify that your email address is a valid address so they can resell 
to other spammers.

Doug Keller
Wis-Kel Electronics
101 Freeland Ave.
Terra Alta, WV
USA        26764
dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, because you
won't live long enough to make them all yourself"



albert walfield wrote:

>Yes I and my young daughter been getting these too on our computers keep
>blocking the senders and unsubscribing but they keep changing their email
>address enough to get passed the blocker.They got us at our wits end.
>Anybody know anything about a program called mailwasher and will it work for
>this problem?
>
>Albert Walfield
>
>Albert Walfield's Electronics
>28 Mulock Rd.
>RR#3
>Bridgewater
>Nova Scotia
>CANADA
>B4V 2W2
>Phone/Fax 902 543-9831
>Email : albertwalfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kevin" <kevintv@xxxxxxx>
>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:25 PM
>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails
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>>Those are for Viagra, breast enlargements and health food supplements.
>>They get your email address somehow and bypass your junk mail filter by
>>adding extra letters that fool the junk mail filter.
>>
>>Kevin Wilks
>>Kevin's TV & Video Repair
>>Penticton BC Canada
>>kevintv@xxxxxxx
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of larry
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:07 PM
>>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Unwanted emails
>>
>>i am running 2 virus scans and now and then it catches an
>>email virus attachment, which i never open anyway.
>>but i have been getting email not addressed to me.
>>and it looks like advertisements, maybe prescription drugs,
>>but looks foreign language.
>>dont know where they are coming from.
>>or why i am getting them.
>>Larry
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>>Kevin wrote:
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>>>Has anybody been receiving emails that you did not send and "come
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>>back"
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>>>to you as "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)"?  I have received 2
>>>in the last few days and they always have attachments.  The last one
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>>was
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>>>from george@endwave dot com.  I have been just deleting them as I
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>>never
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>>>open any attachments when I don't who they are from.
>>>
>>>Kevin Wilks
>>>Kevin's TV & Video Repair
>>>Penticton BC Canada
>>>kevintv@xxxxxxx
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