IMPORTANT! Have you received an email to your forum username?

poppie123

Churchmouse wrote: »

Did I say it made me a target for fraud? No. So you were a lot more computer savvy than me when you registered, bully for you. If doing what I have done is so "asking for trouble" then perhaps MSE should remind all members when they sign up??? I am not blaming MSE. All I have said is that I think we must have the option, for those that want it, of having our accounts wiped from MSE. I don't think that's asking too much.

Don't worry you are not alone, i too have an email address (which i used when i registered on here) that contains my full name.
At the time i didn't give it a second thought.

I haven't yet received an email though

colin79666

John_Gray wrote: »

So you think spammers are so stupid that they don't know that simply stripping out the Stuff between the + sign and the @ sign (in your instance '+somethingunique') will give your real Gmail address?

Look, I can even do it myself! The email address is yourname@gmail.com!

I can't imagine why on earth Gmail even bothered with that pathetic attempt at an email alias... :rotfl:

Sure someone could write a simple script to find the substrings but it's a start. Not everyone knows how to buy a domain name of their own and configure mx records :cool:

Tigsteroonie

Just an update, logged in as Frank a short while ago and still have not received the fake email into that account.

jen_br

Rossy. wrote: »

But the issue is that everyone is blowing this way out of proportion.

It's spam and nothing more.

why would you want a new account? In all fairness it could happen tomorrow, next week, next year. If Sites like this had the time to nilly willy issue new accounts each time this sort of thing happened, the site would probably run out of server space.

If you feel violated then thats your problem but that spam email will only affect you if you click the link and even then i highly presume your antivirus will stop it in it's tracks

Yes but after I got the email I also got an email for Canadian pharmacy and im Canadian.. WTH its like they are watching me.. im going to put tinfoil on my windows
LOL:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

OAP1945

Rossy. wrote: »

what software are you using ? Outlook or are you using Hotmail or Yahoo?

Just click the box to the left of the email and select delete.. !!!!!! it's gone. Just don't click the link in the email

Thankyou young man/lady I did what you told me to and it has gone, is that all I need to do ? many thanks

Toe-Jam

I don't think it is a case of the Usernames being Leaked or Sold, all someone has to do is click on Community > Members List, and there is the list of every single member of the site to cut and paste.

FATBALLZ

SugarSpun wrote: »

People who don't know a vast amount about internet security are going to panic at receiving an email like this, especially if they opened it and especially if they opened the zip file. It's understandable that they're worried and looking for an explanation, just as it's understandable that the MSE techies are too busy trying to dig out whatever the problem is to give a detailed explanation.

It's misleading to imply that only people who don't understand internet security would be worried, I understand it and it looks pretty obvious that MSEs databases have been compromised, and from some of the other posts this isn't a one off. This spam email in itself isn't something to worry too much about but it's also quite likely people's passwords could have been taken, the explanation about 'double encryption' isn't reassuring in the least.

It's a good reminder though never to sign up to a site with a username/pass that you use elsewhere, as poorly managed sites are liable to sell or fail to protect data as has happened here.

Rossy.

jen_br wrote: »

Yes but after I got the email I also got an email for Canadian pharmacy and im Canadian.. WTH its like they are watching me.. im going to put tinfoil on my windows
LOL:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If you saw the state of my Yahoo email account you'd be shocked.

I get fake HSBC,Natwest,Barclays spam

P*nis enlargement device spam (Not needed btw :cool:)

pharmaceutical product spam

It's endless.. But i don't care either

andy.m_2

got the email this morning, but unless I used to be a member before and forgot (possible!) then it was only addressed to the first name on my email address they sent to, not my forum name.
still sucks mind you

andy.m_2

Rossy. wrote: »

If you saw the state of my Yahoo email account you'd be shocked.

I get fake HSBC,Natwest,Barclays spam

P*nis enlargement device spam (Not needed btw :cool:)

pharmaceutical product spam

It's endless.. But i don't care either

set up a gmail account, forward automatically to that and then back again, gmail has a far superior spam filter than yahotbtconnect.com