In Graham's absence

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Maria Thomas

Guest
Ok, that's fine then. he must have just got my email address off the front page.

We haven't had a problem with people trying to take email addresses from the site before, but it's not impossible so I just wanted to be sure that no systematic trawl of the site was being attempted. Looks like all is fine.
 
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Wolfman Woody

Guest
I set up an Email account some time ago when, unknown to me then, I had a virus and it spied me setting up this address. Following that the address got bombarded with all smutty spam and ads for viagra etc.

Two weeks ago I got around to changing the address (the ISP let's you do that now) and since then no more smut. However, yesterday I got one of those African "help me get my money" emails for some Nigerian pillock.

WHERE did he get my address from? I haven't used it or passed it to anyone. I don't have viruses now. It's such an unusual address, you would never guess it in a million years.

Is someone at my ISP selling on lists of email addresses?
 
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ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)

Guest
They use a programme that just churns out addresses by the billion(just combinations of letters followed by the @ ISP address) and sends out e-mails to them all, most dont go anywhere because the e-mail addresses dont exist --but some do and thats what they bank on ....
 
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Wolfman Woody

Guest
Yes Ed and unfortunately they're screwing up the internet and slowing down our services.

Bryan, when we all went to Blue Pool, Graham kindly gave me some of that Emu rubbing oil for tired muscles, but warned not to get it on my c**k as it worked better than Viagra.

Do I listen to sound advice? I wonder if they do a jumbo pot of Emu Oil?
 
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