OK, who did this to me?

[Viper GTS]

Dammit, this pisses me off. I get home this evening, & check my e-mail. I haven't checked my e-mail in almost 48 hours at this address, so I figure I'll have 5 or 6 messages. No, I've got 56! Check out what my inbox looked like:


Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 6:23 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 6:10 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 6:10 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 6:09 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 4:47 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 4:47 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 4:47 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 4:47 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 4:47 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:35 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:17 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:17 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:17 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:17 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 2:16 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:23 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:23 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:23 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:23 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:23 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:22 PM
Lyris List Manager Your confirmation is needed Tue 9/12/00 1:20 PM

All of them exactly the same except for what I was subscribed to.

Here's an example:


Received: by mail3 (mbox vipergts)
(with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Tue Sep 12 21:36:43 2000)
X-From_: bounce-message-1291298@ls5.sendoutmail.com Wed Sep 13 01:39:15 2000
Return-Path: <bounce-message-1291298@ls5.sendoutmail.com>
Delivered-To: vipergts@teleport.com
Received: (qmail 328 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2000 01:22:53 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ls5.sendoutmail.com) (207.241.30.137)
by smtp6.teleport.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2000 01:22:53 -0000
Message-Id: <LYRIS-1291298-31585-2000.09.12-20.25.20--vipergts#teleport.com@ls5.sendoutmail.com>
X-lyris-type: confirm-request
From: &quot;Lyris List Manager&quot; <lyris-confirm-1291298A@ls5.sendoutmail.com>
Reply-To: &quot;Lyris List Manager&quot; <lyris-confirm-1291298A@ls5.sendoutmail.com>
To: vipergts@teleport.com
Subject: Your confirmation is needed
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:25:20 -0500

Please reply to this email message to confirm your subscription to
free-stuff.

Your email address has been entered for a subscription to the
free-stuff mailing list. However, your new subscription requires
a confirmation that you received this email message and want
to join this mailing list.

If you do not want to join, do nothing. You will be automatically
removed.

To confirm that you do want to join, simply reply to this message.
Make sure that your message is addressed to
lyris-confirm-1291298A@ls5.sendoutmail.com

To unsubscribe immediately, you send an email message to
leave-free-stuff-1291298A@ls5.sendoutmail.com

The part in bold was the only part that changed. Somebody found it necessary to subscribe me to:

free-stuff
pulse-news
buckley
bizarre
insults
ethnicjokes
word
notmartha
great-sex
topten
net
truth
sybil
music
personals
courts
todaysgolf
gizmo
history
angel
almanac
good
diet-buddy
travel-freebies
wnt
hotbuttons
garden
time
quoteaday
classic-laffaday
country
get-paid
tutor
thrifty-tips
laura
nascar
rock
invest
deadend
living
taxbrake
filmquote
tarot
et
scopes
tease
thedailyrecipe
bible
biography
groaner
coffee

I don't use this e-mail address for much, especially things that are likely to send me spam. Can anybody glean any info from the header? I don't see anything in there of value. I figure it was probably someone from this forum, since this is the only place it's publicly visible.

If anybody can help, I'd appreciate it. I want to make damned sure this never happens again.

:|

Viper GTS

 

[RU482]

EXACTLY why I don't post my profile.

Sorry to hear this kind oa sh!t going on.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The headers only contain information regarding the list server which sent you the email. They don't give any indication of what source signed you up for any of the lists, since it's only an email from the server, not that person.

You might be able to contact the admin of the list server and see if they'll check their logs, but since they're probably a spam company (SendOutMail.com) they're not likely to do anything.

Hopefully they'll actually honor the mention that they'll remove you if you don't reply. If they don't, then you can contact the postmaster at the site and inform them that you did not make the requests and you wish to be completely removed from those lists and any lists to whom they may have sold or given your email address. Advise them that if they do not remove you and confirm that they have done so, you will contact their ISP or web host and have their service terminated (most ISP's and web hosts severely frown on SPAM).

 

[reitz]

That sucks, but at least he picked a service that requires you to send a confirmation email. Do what I do, and don't show your main address here. I would assume that you get some sort of discount from the ISP you work for, why not set up another address just for places like this? I've got one that dumps the messages into the same inbox in Outlook Express. If I ever start to get spam or other unwanted email, I'll just change the address.

 

[Napalm381]

Blame Lozer

 

[Viper GTS]

Actually, if I had to pick someone Lozer would be my guess as to the culprit.

I guess what I could do is create a subaccount to this &amp; use that for my public address. That way if I get sh!t like this again I can simply remove that subaccount &amp; create another.

Thanks for the advice,

Viper GTS

 

[BoberFett]

Goddamit I got that fscking sh1t too. What the hell is that all about?

 

[4xu]

That looks like the typical inbox of a hotmail adress..............

 

[Mem]

Viper GTS ,Have you upset someone?,nevermind it could be worst.

 

[Fathom4]

That's exactly why I don't show my e-mail address in my profile since the Mods quit accepting free mail addresses. I get enough crap coming through as it is.

 

[Isla]

Wow, that sucks... Thanks for the heads up. Sorry you had to deal with that. I'm new here, and while I'm not afraid of people with differing opinions, I do dislike rudeness. That was just plain rude.

 

[cxim]

viper

you are lucky it took as long as it did.

never put a real email addy on a public board.

some of us learned that a long time ago.

 

[IronMike]

I make a point of bouncing back 400 return copies of the exact spam that I received. But that ain't me.

 

[apoppin]

I am really sorry to see this happened.

Because of this, I removed my e-mail address from my profile. If somebody needs to contact me they can use private messaging.

 

[Johnlee]

LOL @ IronMike!

Viper-that really sucks dude. Thanks for sharing. I just got rid of mine, even tho I rarely use that one.

On a side note-To be honest with you I've seen you piss off a few people lately. I couldn't name them specifically, but I've noticed it in passing. Who knows, could be anyone I guess.

I just thought I'd share that with you.

Good luck in finding the culprit.

 

[IBhacknU]

Dude!

That blow.

 

[syber321]

Damn....that's annoying. Well, at least you can just delete 'em all since it needs your confirmation. If it didn't, you'd be stuck unsubscribing from each one, one at a time. All lists I know send out confirm emails so that's not a problem. Unfortunately, if this guy has your email, chances are he could try something dirtier, like send out a few mass emails..

 

[nickdakick]

I had some of that crap too. Just some, because I didn't flame him(Lozer) as much as Viper did.
HHHHMMMM, maybe he's a scaling Lozer.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< Actually, if I had to pick someone Lozer would be my guess as to the culprit. >>


Viper didn't say that Lozer did it.

Viper
These didn't say anything about when/where you (supposedly) signed up?
Shouldn't you be able to get that information from the server?? Don't they record IP addresses or some rubbish like that?