EGN Spam Magnet

[~KissTheStar]

Nope never seen it before.


~Craig

[~admin]

Anytime an email address appears on a web page it can be scoured up by spiders that scan the net and collect such emails. You have a DJ page here that has your email address in that page source. That is most likely where this came from.

EGN will never give any member information to anyone under any circumstances unless required by law.

This SPAM is a part of the much bigger Internet SPAM problem where emails are collected anywhere possible, placed in lists, sold, resold and then SPAMMED to death. Send your ISP an email to have that sender blocked.

[~cliffwalk]

You really have to be careful these days. You likely posted your email address somewhere on this site... Those "spider" robots are actually quite clever these days and can even negotiate their way around forums and scrounge for email addresses.

Even more scary is that the main ISPs/Email providers (such as AOL/Hotmail/Yahoo) run very active SMTP servers. It hasn't been PROVEN but it wouldn't be against the law for them to ship their SMTP access logs off to parsing software to create additional no-profiled lists. Many have done some experiments and have had their email address discovered almost out of nowhere...

The only defense these days is to fight fire with fire and use an email service that has strong spam filtering in place.

Dave

[~Paradoxxx]

I know of someone that created a hotmail account, gave that e-mail address to 1(!!) friend, and after a couple of days already had spam hitting her hotmailbox.
The only ways the spammers could have gotten that new&fresh e-mail address was either Hotmail told them, or they are very good at guessing account names....

[Avil]

Nope haven´t seen it before, but it´s good to know that it exists.

[~intervox]

Haven't gotten that before, but thanks for the heads up. :)

[~spi]

So what we can learn from this thread is to keep your real email addy secret.

If you have to post your email address on a web page you can always scramble the addy using a tool like this http://www.hivelogic.com/emailencoder.php which should block the addy from most "spiders".

-steve