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[geminigirl]

I'd been very careful about keeping my work e-mail address spamfree...never signed up for anything there, nor used it anywhere. And now, it's getting spammed. Not a lot of spam, just a few pieces, but I'm pissed.

Co-workers have used e-vite, and sent their e-vites to my work address. And someone dd some free movie ticket thing, where if I go to some website, we both get gift certificates for free movies. And so on.

And now I get spammed at work.

Comments

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Ick.

What's interesting is that MY work email (my name at yahoo-inc) got spam on almost the first day, and I didn't distribute it ANYWHERE. A friend who had started a week before me didn't get any spam at his yahoo-inc addy at all.

All I can figger is that there was, at some point in history, another emmett at yahoo. Or that the spammers use the domain with a generic list of first names.

[geminigirl]

I don't like my address being given out without my permission; if it's to an individual, that's fine. But not to a company, mailing list or product. I get a wine mailing list at work, which is administered by a local store, not a corporate entity, as a favor to a co-worker who convinced them to donate a bunch of stuff. That was fine. She asked, I said yes. This was not something I agreed to do.

you are FRIENDed

[rapha.livejournal.com]

Did G-girl ever get you those brownies? Want picutres!

Re: you are FRIENDed

[geminigirl]

He told me no chocolate til the end of May, and I said "okay"-so he gets them for his birthday, which is, incidentally, the same day as mine.

Re: you are FRIENDed

[rapha.livejournal.com]

23rd?

Re: you are FRIENDed

[geminigirl]

27th.

[beetlebau.livejournal.com]

I have my email setup so that any email from off campus goes into my pine account and email from on campus Outlook goes into my Outlook account. This puts all the spam in my Pine account and there is a lot of it! I'm pretty sure a lot of the spam is the result of harvesting from webpages with my email address.

See YOU know better, and I know better...

[rapha.livejournal.com]

But when you dad thinks it'd be neat to add you to COMMUNITY COFFEE's mailing list , it all goes downhill from there. :/

[draakken.livejournal.com]

As I email a host open to the net, I'm seeing a lot of dictionary type attacks on email services. They try asmith bsmith csmith etc.... until the server doesn't reject it, and then I'm sure they file it away, and sell it to others.

i'm beginning to think that only really long cryptic email address is likely to dodge spam, but then one of your 'friends' will evite you and blammo its all over.

I've started getting some spam at work too, but the common first.last @ company is realy easy to get good hit rates with a 'dictionary' of common first/last names.

[thepozlife.livejournal.com]

I, too, was always careful about my work e-mail address. A co-worker sent me an e-card once and ever since I get a small amount of spam. It really ticked me off. The e-card wasn't from one of the mainstream companies like Hallmark or American Greetings.

It doesn't matter to the spammers/bots that it's a .gov address.