My uber-secret address didn't get any spam today, but my normal account go the spike. I'm up to well over 100 messages today. I wouldn't at all be surprised if AI sold our e-mail addresses, actually...
Never used to get spam on my .mac account until about 2 months ago. Suddenly I started gettign 10-20 a day, now it's more. Nearly all are strings of random gibberish and a link. Some come from other .mac addresses.
I'm extremely careful where I use my .mac address, use a hotmail one wherever I'm not sure if it's cool.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if AI sold our e-mail addresses, actually...
Kasper and the MacNN monkeys might be doing this. I hear they'll do anything for a quick buck. I can promise everyone that the rest of the forum staff and I are not, though.
Lesson of the Day:
Never use a personal e-mail address that you want "clean" to register for anything.
I just wanted to say that my .Mac address is getting bombarded suddenly as well. It's way out of hand. It's been like that for about 2 weeks, or so. And I don't do the whole net pr0n thing either. It's just there every day. Especially those stupid penile enlargement pills
They are also being sent with no ADV in the subject line, and half the opt-outs are 404. I've been forwarding all these to [email protected] and hope Apple is working to do something about it,
It is not apples problem, it is and for at least 2 years has been common knoledge that opt-outs are bogus,
if you still think opt-outs are real then forward this thread to 5 friends and Bill Gates will send you $500, which oddly enough is the exact amount that i am asking for the Golden Gate Bridge. (will also trade bridge for 17 inch PB) Or perhaps you would like to enhanse your sex drive by purchaseing my herbal viagra, unleash the lady's man inside you
I don't have any spam coming into my email. I use it for personal only. I make sure people don't forward things to me. My other half is getting spam, not alot, but she gets forwards from people all the time...I'd say tell your buddies to knock it off. It's not .mac's problem...
I signed up for a .mac account as soon as they were available and have never gotten any spam, but starting yesterday my address has been hijacked and used as the return address to send what appears to be viruses to other .mac users. I have gotten 4 bounced emails that where addressed to hundreds of other .mac users. Not only don't I know how they got my address since I am very protective of it, but I also don't know how they got a list of other .mac users to send email to. Also I wonder about the attachments. There are 3 different ones in the 4 emails. I have not opened any of them, but if they are just windows viruses why send them to .mac users? I have sent email to Apple about this, but only got one canned response so far. This kind of crap is really annoying and if not brought under control will really be the downfall of email as we know it.
I've seen an increase in .Mac spam recently... not only that, but Mail.app seems to have stopped tagging this crap as Junk. I've reset it to training mode-- doesn't help.
In fact, Mail at home (Panther) and Work (Jaguar) both refuse to recognize the spam.
Weird. In all the years I've used them, I've never had a problem with .Mac/Mail before-- and it's always been my forum/crapcatcher addy.
occasionally I get spam that crashes Entourage. I just got one from '[email protected]' that continually crashed/quit Entourage. I had to go to .mac webmail to delete it.
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I'm extremely careful where I use my .mac address, use a hotmail one wherever I'm not sure if it's cool.
Originally posted by Eugene
I wouldn't at all be surprised if AI sold our e-mail addresses, actually...
Kasper and the MacNN monkeys might be doing this. I hear they'll do anything for a quick buck. I can promise everyone that the rest of the forum staff and I are not, though.
Lesson of the Day:
Never use a personal e-mail address that you want "clean" to register for anything.
No spam for me.
Originally posted by dviant
They are also being sent with no ADV in the subject line, and half the opt-outs are 404. I've been forwarding all these to [email protected] and hope Apple is working to do something about it,
It is not apples problem, it is and for at least 2 years has been common knoledge that opt-outs are bogus,
if you still think opt-outs are real then forward this thread to 5 friends and Bill Gates will send you $500, which oddly enough is the exact amount that i am asking for the Golden Gate Bridge. (will also trade bridge for 17 inch PB
In the past 12 hrs... I have already received more than 20 spams. Typically less then 10/day.
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In fact, Mail at home (Panther) and Work (Jaguar) both refuse to recognize the spam.
Weird. In all the years I've used them, I've never had a problem with .Mac/Mail before-- and it's always been my forum/crapcatcher addy.
Originally posted by Kenneth
History repeated itself again..
In the past 12 hrs... I have already received more than 20 spams. Typically less then 10/day.
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Originally posted by onlyafterdark
Thats sweet. Thanks DanMacMan.
Thank MacWorld's latest magazine, that's where I found out about it.