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Email sending out viagra links to contacts...help please?
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Concur that email address are harvested from websites and used as (a) targets for spam (b) spoofed 'froms'. Let's see how long it takes to appear in an inbox: msef.2397457_11apr10@anticom.co.uk as spam from a site as popular as this ;-)0
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I have had problems with my Hotmail account as well so thanks all for the tips.
Funnily enough I have had 2 people contact me recently to say they no longer use hotmail, I wonder why?Find out who you are and do that on purpose (thanks to Owain Wyn Jones quoting Dolly Parton)0 -
That's not bad - it took nearly a week to start seeing that email address in phishing spam. On some forums it can take just a couple of hours :-)2010 Apr 16 23:36:18 inbound/cleanup[3806]: C5B58AD152: milter-reject: END-OF-MESSAGE from n79a.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com[98.136.45.26]: 5.7.1 Virus Found; from=<hopekipkalya002@gmail.com> to=<msef.2397457_11apr10@anticom.co.uk> proto=SMTP helo=<n79a.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>0
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