I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
PPPPparfait@nc.rr.com
Administrative - Anyone Out There Calling Me Sweetie ?
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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John Phillips
Re: Administrative - Anyone Out There Calling Me Sweetie ?
I got the same thing from a "Bridgit" with roughly five other addresses (I don't think any of them were yours). Fortunately, my fear of viruses, both computer and other, made the delete choice an easy one.
branchedoakmarina@alltel.net
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
branchedoakmarina@alltel.net
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Tom
I got it also
JFYI I got it also. Some spammer must have hit our BB.
TomCambria@mindspring.com
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
TomCambria@mindspring.com
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Dennis Truett
My wife opened mine....
Yes Me Too! Actually my wife opened it!
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
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BobM
Re: Administrative - Anyone Out There Calling Me Sweetie ?
Someone is visiting our board for email addresses. I also received a greeting from BridgetD2@aol.com. It was porn! There must be something we can do to limit this kind of email harassment.
BobM
Ranger #144
CD25D
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Ranger1442@hotmail.com
BobM
Ranger #144
CD25D
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Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
Ranger1442@hotmail.com
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Larry DeMers
Re: Administrative - Me Too! (n/m)
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
demers@sgi.com
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Bruce Lumsden
Re: Administrative - Anyone Out There Calling Me Sweetie ?
FWIW, I received the same message at my work e-mail address. Fortunately, my employer's information security police did not crash through my door to arrest me this morning. I did not access any links nor did I open any attachments, but the message must have been fairly benign to get through my employer's firewall.
Bruce Lumsden
CD25 Sabine
Hull 314
JLumsden@gwi.net
Bruce Lumsden
CD25 Sabine
Hull 314
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
JLumsden@gwi.net
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Sean
Sweetie = porn spam
It's porn spam - delete it immediately.
foursailors@prodigy.net
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
foursailors@prodigy.net
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No tellin
Have You Tried The Link?
This is very innefective advertising. I tried the links and the e-mail and none of it worked. Oh well.
Ken Coit wrote: I have a suspicious email to my parfait address with a subject of "Hey Sweetie" from Bridgitx02@aol.com. Looking at the header, the return address is nobody@cobra.formysite.com. It was sent to a total of five addresses, so I guess it isn't too personal.
Anyone have any clues?
Ken Coit
CD/36 Parfait
Raleigh, NC
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M. R. Bober
Me too, Sweetie.
So much for the myth of lusty sailors.
Every best wish,
Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330
Every best wish,
Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330
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Mark Yashinsky
Think about not giving out e-mail address
Leave the e-mail field after the name blank, and if people want to communicate offline, then send it in the body (mangled in some human only, understandable form) of the message. I know its not the concept of the board, but since this has occured and may not be the last time....
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Mark Yashinsky
Walt/Cathy, also...
And maybe mangling the registry e-mail addresses (and home address/phone numbers). Shame, isnt it.
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Walt Cathy
ADMIN: Spammers
Cathy and I have discussed this, and we don't think there's much we can do about it.
Spam is a fact of life for anyone who wants to engage in on-line life using a real email address. People can always include "NOSPAM" or something more imaginative (I bet the harvester programs know how to spell "NOSPAM" by now) within their e-mail addresses that they post. We know of no other way to stop it, short of putting in a whole membership and email masking system, the way sites like Yahoo groups have done.
You can support anti-spam legislation through groups like <a href="http://www.cauce.org/">CAUCE</a>. That will have some effect, but since the Internet is global, there are limits to what it can do. There are email filter programs around, and filtering that can be used within some email software, to catch some of the spam.
You can ask to be removed from spammers' lists, but unless the spammer is a reputable company, all that'll do is confirm that you're a real email address. In the rare case where they list a genuine email address, or when you can trace their ISP, you can complain to the host, but that takes time and is not always effective.
The bottom line is that Internet-active people just get used to the fact that we will be getting spammed and we will have to delete the stuff. Pretty soon you get to where you can get 95% of it without even reading past the subject.
Walt Bilofsky and Cathy Monaghan
Webmasters
bilofsky@toolworks.com
Spam is a fact of life for anyone who wants to engage in on-line life using a real email address. People can always include "NOSPAM" or something more imaginative (I bet the harvester programs know how to spell "NOSPAM" by now) within their e-mail addresses that they post. We know of no other way to stop it, short of putting in a whole membership and email masking system, the way sites like Yahoo groups have done.
You can support anti-spam legislation through groups like <a href="http://www.cauce.org/">CAUCE</a>. That will have some effect, but since the Internet is global, there are limits to what it can do. There are email filter programs around, and filtering that can be used within some email software, to catch some of the spam.
You can ask to be removed from spammers' lists, but unless the spammer is a reputable company, all that'll do is confirm that you're a real email address. In the rare case where they list a genuine email address, or when you can trace their ISP, you can complain to the host, but that takes time and is not always effective.
The bottom line is that Internet-active people just get used to the fact that we will be getting spammed and we will have to delete the stuff. Pretty soon you get to where you can get 95% of it without even reading past the subject.
Walt Bilofsky and Cathy Monaghan
Webmasters
bilofsky@toolworks.com