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Email sending out viagra links to contacts...help please?

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  • Mr_Oink
    Mr_Oink Posts: 1,012 Forumite
    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 ;-)
  • tealady
    tealady Posts: 3,856 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hi
    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)
  • Mr_Oink
    Mr_Oink Posts: 1,012 Forumite
    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>
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