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Title: Spam!
Post by: danilynnarthur on October 13, 2004, 06:24:26 PM: [rant]

I hate to be a spoilsport, but I think someone from Charas is sending spam mail.

Other Charas members' names have been showing up in my email inbox recently, but -- the last straw this PM was one from the address of our beloved founder. I would recognize his mail, which this isn't, it's someone using his address book to send out spam..

I changed email addresses to stop this problem and it has continued, the new address is getting tons of spam as well.

It has to stop. Something has to be done about this.

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Post by: linkline91 on October 13, 2004, 06:33:10 PM: i know whatcha mean but i started blocking people so they don't
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Post by: Red Giant on October 13, 2004, 06:37:39 PM: Nah, it isn't someone on charas. It's spambots that find e-mail adresses, they're pretty clever.
For example, they'll find an adress from charas, send spam and pretend that it was sent from another adress on charas to make it more believable.
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Post by: VahnGrave on October 13, 2004, 06:48:32 PM: Yeah, its kinda like that XANGA crap that somehow finds its way to my hotmail.
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Post by: Xen on October 13, 2004, 06:51:59 PM: Something like what Red Giant said is happening to me too!
Except MY address is being used...
I had nasty e-mails from another Charas member(no names mentioned) telling me not to send him viruses...
It was from 'Masterdale' which was my old 'net name and the e-mail address is exactly the same...
I think there are some very sad people in the world for them to do these things...
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Post by: White Dwarf on October 13, 2004, 07:31:48 PM: I agree
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Post by: GaryCXJk on October 14, 2004, 07:32:55 AM: Only one thing to do. Find from which site the spam runs, contact the webmasters, and if nothing happens, spam that website until they secure it, or until spam gets removed.
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Post by: Revolution911 on October 14, 2004, 12:21:32 PM: i do that...i annoy them right back........its fun
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Post by: SaiKar on October 14, 2004, 03:37:12 PM: That is disturbing.

Obviously the best thing to do is simply delete it if it looks fishy. I cannot imagine anyone on Charas actaully bothering to send a bunch of nasty spam emails.
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Post by: VahnGrave on October 14, 2004, 03:45:10 PM: Why would someone take time out of their day, to go and spam people saying things like "STOP SENDING ME NASTY EMAILS!!" or a classic "Your Xanga Subscription has been approved"

I mean...WHAT THE HECK IS XANGA?!Fricking annoying spam.Its almost as annoying as the FOOD spam.
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Post by: Xen on October 14, 2004, 04:51:56 PM: Like I said, theres some very sad people around....
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Post by: Red Giant on October 14, 2004, 05:44:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Revolution911
i do that...i annoy them right back........its fun

What, you reply to spam mails?

Tip: Do not reply to spam mail. This results in MORE spam mail, you silly billy.
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Post by: Sephiroth rocks on October 14, 2004, 06:30:20 PM: Actually I constantly recieves spam mails from some @ss who's here from Charas. Since he's a newb here and never posts here I'll reviel his name: AJP. It could be someone else but I doubt it. But it's probably just 'cuz he's got a virus or something.
I got a spam mail from Red once too so it's a common prob.
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Post by: Red Giant on October 14, 2004, 06:50:05 PM: I'm pretty sure it wasn't him. Spambots do things like that. They pretend to be what they are not. It's likely that no-one in charas is doing this.
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Post by: Xen on October 14, 2004, 07:01:10 PM: Yeah, no-one in Charas would send spam mail, well hopefully anyway....
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Post by: Sephiroth rocks on October 14, 2004, 07:14:10 PM: Aaaarg I've just got a spam mail from Smokey too! It can't be all of an accident with all that spam mails!
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Post by: Red Giant on October 14, 2004, 08:28:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sephiroth rocks
Aaaarg I've just got a spam mail from Smokey too! It can't be all of an accident with all that spam mails!

It's not a coincidence. That's how some of these things work. They'll look for adresses from a certain site and change the sender adress to look like it came from someone of the same site, thus making it look more authentic.
This means it has your e-mail and smokey's too. And all because you joined charas.