Spam Received

[brutusbluto]

Got the following spam to my email box:
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-------Original Message-------

From: jp91239@aol.com
Date: 9/19/2010 9:52:31 AM
To: csimar1@yahoo.com; staff@eccie.net


hellohttp://www.jvho.salexmeds.combest regards, jp91239@aol.com

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Just wanted to pass this along in case it should be.

[Clingus]

I've been getting odd spam e-mails also that are very similar in format to the one above. No problem, I just delete them. They were coming from someone named Michelle M. I even contacted that person and they insisted it they weren't sending them to me. Today I got an e-mail from a provider I've been e-mailing about meeting and she asked me to stop sending her e-mail. When I scrolled down I saw the same format of spam I was getting. I noticed that on some of that spam I received her address was also attached.

Here's my concern. This has never happended before though I've been a member on these kinds of boards from over a decade. The provide that's getting the spam from me was contacted from me THROUGH INFO I GOT FROM THIS BOARD! The only thing common to all of this is THIS BOARD!

So who on this board is collecting and selling our e-mails?

Is there any way to stop this?

[VictoriaLyn]

I have been getting the randpmly for the past few months from differnt clients I have met from here.....i think you need to change your password to stop it

[Mokoa]

It appears that you all encountered the type of malicious code that goes through the contacts of your e-mail client and then sends e-mails to spread itself. These e-mails appear to be from people you know when actually they are not. If you encounter some thing like this and are not sure about it, contact the person named as the sender directly and verify that it is a legitimate e-mail.

[Clingus]

<If you encounter some thing like this and are not sure about it, contact the person named as the sender directly and verify that it is a legitimate e-mail. >

That's not possible. The emails I get are sometimes from my own e-mail address and other times from a providers e-mail address. The content of the e-mail is usually promoting some pharmacuetical like Viagra or Cialis. Scam websites no doubt. What are you suggesting I do, contact the scam website and say please stop sending me this crap? There's dozens of these each day!

Like I mentioned, the only common thread to all this is the timing of it coinciding with my contacting the provider from this board, so guess where I think this problem originated from....? As a member of the previous board for over a decade I never had this happen. I'll go right out and say it.. I think ya'll are selling our e-mail addresses!

What else could it be?
R.J.

[Mokoa]

If the name of the sender is someone you know, then try to contact them ans ask about it.

Sorry if that was not clear.

[Clingus]

<If the name of the sender is someone you know, then try to contact them ans ask about it.>

(Sigh), Yes, I did, it say's so in my op.