Email overload....WTF???

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by Jeff '79

Gene. Your e-mail was hacked.

I don't need to hack your email account in order to send you SPAM.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

I don't need to hack your email account in order to send you SPAM.

What he said. I get SPAM from vendors at work due to others in our department signing us up for training classes. It's non-stop and the organization had to put in a massive spam filter that notifies us of potential spam and lets us decide to allow the sender or not.

[Jeff '79]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

I don't need to hack your email account in order to send you SPAM.

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What he said. I get SPAM from vendors at work due to others in our department signing us up for training classes. It's non-stop and the organization had to put in a massive spam filter that notifies us of potential spam and lets us decide to allow the sender or not.

1000 emails??? That's A lot of spam !!

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Jeff '79

1000 emails??? That's A lot of spam !!

Yeh, no shit, been going on for some 3 daze now, and I recognize most of the addy's.....and trick is many of them are identical addy's in a row/line maybe 1/2 dzn long.....trick is I have to read the lines to make sure none of them are legit...PITA......



Thing that bugs ME is what in HELL they thinking of accomplishing??

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by mrvette

Yeh, no shit, been going on for some 3 daze now, and I recognize most of the addy's.....

So you're saying the SPAMmers forged the From: addresses using legitimate addresses from your address book?

[SubZero]

could just throw your computer in the trash

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

So you're saying the SPAMmers forged the From: addresses using legitimate addresses from your address book?

NO!!! after a day or so of this, and several hundred, I scroll through the crap and recognize the addy's as having 'sent' some shit before....hour or two before, maybe a day or two before.....much less a repeat of the same addy maybe 2-6 times before in the same download.....