CAUTION...Do not use your email address for........

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This is a friendly warning: I have posted my email address on this site with questions. I did this so if people wanted they could have an alternate method of communication. HOWEVER I have had no less than 14 emails from someone pretending to represent Microsoft, over the last 5 days. The emails at first glance look convincing, however after scanning them approx 75% have contained a VIrus. Not all virus's found were the same and every time I checked the senders various emails was not from microsoft. Many are from places where it is easy to set up a free email account. In all instances the email could not be bounced back to the sender as it was blocked. Who at microsoft would like this info ???? There are people pretending to be MIcrosoft running freely on the net. All emails say something like"Microsoft IE update or Microsoft email or updates". In one case I was able to determine that my email adress was found from this site by means of a email harvesting program.
 
DJ said:
This is a friendly warning: I have posted my email address on this
site with questions. I did this so if people wanted they could have
an alternate method of communication. HOWEVER I have had no less than
14 emails from someone pretending to represent Microsoft, over the
last 5 days. The emails at first glance look convincing, however
after scanning them approx 75% have contained a VIrus. Not all
virus's found were the same and every time I checked the senders
various emails was not from microsoft. Many are from places where it
is easy to set up a free email account. In all instances the email
could not be bounced back to the sender as it was blocked. Who at
microsoft would like this info ???? There are people pretending to be
MIcrosoft running freely on the net. All emails say something
like"Microsoft IE update or Microsoft email or updates". In one case
I was able to determine that my email adress was found from this site
by means of a email harvesting program.
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Welcome to the world of the Internet.
Been happeing for years.
 
This is a friendly warning: I have posted my email address on this site with questions. I did this so if people wanted they could have an alternate method of communication. HOWEVER I have had no less than 14 emails from someone pretending to represent Microsoft, over the last 5 days. The emails at first glance look convincing, however after scanning them approx 75% have contained a VIrus. Not all virus's found were the same and every time I checked the senders various
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emails was not from microsoft. Many are from places where it is easy to set up a free email account. In all instances the email could not be bounced back to the sender as it was blocked. Who at microsoft would like this info ???? There are people pretending to be MIcrosoft running freely on the net. All emails say something like"Microsoft IE update or Microsoft email or updates". In one case I was able to determine that my email adress was found from this site by means
of a email harvesting program.Your best bet, to avoid the automatic harvesters is to put something
obviously fake after the "@" sign. It won't get rid of the folks
pulling addresses by hand, but it'll cut your spam traffic a bunch.

I also use a sneakemail account, with a virtual address tagged
specifically for newsgroups. As long as that address stays relatively
clean, I leave it turned on. When it gets spammed, I kill it and create
another one. I use a belt & suspenders approach - I alter the address
AND use sneakemail. That way, I can usually hold on to a given
sneakemail address for quite awhile.

Sneakemail is an AWESOME site.

http://www.sneakemail.com

~ Rosanne
 
Greetings --

It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup, as you have done, or web site is an
open initiation to be spammed. For years now, spammers have been
using automated tools to harvest email addresses from the Internet and
Usenet. What I don't understand is why you're just now noticing the
phenomenon. Was this the first time you _ever_ posted to Usenet?


Bruce Chambers

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Thanks for the advice guys and yes I usually don't post to user groups other than 1 other (that shall remain nameless
Thanks a bunch for all your suggestions + inf
DJ.
 
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