Remember Yesterday's Spam?? I Got 36 New Ones Today

[308nato]

WTF is up with this crap?? Somebody in charge should do some 'splainin. This really f@cking sucks. I had NEVER gotten even 1 spam e-mail in my "true" email till yesterday and today because only family members have it.

 

[Entity]

Jesus Christ, Read the other threads...

Secondly, I only got that one piece of SPAM...these may be, as unlikely as it may seem, unrelated.

Rob

 

[Entity]

Here's what the mods had to say:

A malicious spammer could harvest addresses from any forum that permits open display of members' addresses. AnandTech Forums does not sell or give the email addresses of our members to anyone. Period. The only exception is to law enforcement agencies, etc. when a a specific member is shown to be involved in wrongdoing.

The email address, or anything like it, is not in our records. I will check the IP address range.

AnandTech Moderator

We have determined that the spammer is a member who registered on 04/02/2002 as scannert. He has a total of three posts, and all of them have a link to headliner.nl. One is in this thread, and two are in this archived thread.

We will file a formal abuse complaint about this person, and we have banned the IP range for their server. Since those who have received this spam have the actual email, you should forward it to the abuse address mentioned earlier, abuse@inter.NL.net.

We do not know if will do any good to forward it to abuse@headliner.nl, because they are a mailing list site. Writing them could possibly cause them to send more spam. Therefore, we recommend that you block all email from this domain name.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[FoBoT]

i haven't gotten any new ones since the one posted yesterday/that other thread

 

[JC]

I only got the one.

 

[BlueApple]

Originally posted by: 308nato
WTF is up with this crap?? Somebody in charge should do some 'splainin. This really f@cking sucks. I had NEVER gotten even 1 spam e-mail in my "true" email till yesterday and today because only family members have it.

I guess for me its not too much of a problem since I get a lot of spam, its not a probablem but I can see how much this sucks. 🙁

Did you email them back yesterday at all, or use the 'unsubscribe' link?

 

[308nato]

Well, I hope for everyone's sake that I was the only one singled out for this crap. I missed the explanation from the mods. Sorry. It just sucks.