Comments on: Companies that have sold my email address to spammers http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/ Interesting news, sports, investing, and political commentary. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:40:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Karen http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-5686 Karen Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:32:53 +0000 http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-5686 Yes, first message marked as spam by Gmail (that was actually spam)... I tried to be 'careful' with the gmail account, keeping yahoo and hotmail for may 'spam' accounts... plus all those fantastic temporary email services and bugmenot have all helped keep the spam from coming. Thanks for letting me 'fume' and thanks for the reply! Yes, first message marked as spam by Gmail (that was actually spam)… I tried to be ‘careful’ with the gmail account, keeping yahoo and hotmail for may ’spam’ accounts… plus all those fantastic temporary email services and bugmenot have all helped keep the spam from coming.
Thanks for letting me ‘fume’ and thanks for the reply!

]]> By: Scott K http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-5682 Scott K Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:37:45 +0000 http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-5682 Well, good thing that you are using Gmail. It has some of the best spam protection in the industry. Did the spam message reach your Inbox? If it did then just make sure to mark it as spam so that Gmail's spam filters will improve and pick it up in the future. If this was your first message marked as spam by Gmail, then you've been lucky! I receive about 30 spam messages a day, mostly to my "secondary" email addresses as noted above. I maybe receive 1 spam every other week that actually reaches my Inbox. As far as recourse, you could contact PartyPoker and let them know of this event. And, never, ever click the "Please unsubscribe me" link in spam emails. If you do they will know that the email address is valid and you will only receive more spam. Good luck! Well, good thing that you are using Gmail. It has some of the best spam protection in the industry. Did the spam message reach your Inbox? If it did then just make sure to mark it as spam so that Gmail’s spam filters will improve and pick it up in the future. If this was your first message marked as spam by Gmail, then you’ve been lucky! I receive about 30 spam messages a day, mostly to my “secondary” email addresses as noted above. I maybe receive 1 spam every other week that actually reaches my Inbox.

As far as recourse, you could contact PartyPoker and let them know of this event. And, never, ever click the “Please unsubscribe me” link in spam emails. If you do they will know that the email address is valid and you will only receive more spam. Good luck!

]]> By: Karen http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-5680 Karen Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:52:00 +0000 http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-5680 I have found after unsubscribing from partypoker's email thing I now receive phishing spam from the king of nigeria! What recourse is there though? This is my first spam in 3 years ... so I guess it's time that my gmail account is found. I have found after unsubscribing from partypoker’s email thing I now receive phishing spam from the king of nigeria! What recourse is there though?

This is my first spam in 3 years … so I guess it’s time that my gmail account is found.

]]> By: Illiterate Withdrawal » Blog Archive » Strange Spam http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-4501 Illiterate Withdrawal » Blog Archive » Strange Spam Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:45:40 +0000 http://www.illiteratewithdrawal.com/2006/10/companies-that-have-sold-my-email-address-to-spammers/#comment-4501 [...] gets to actually attempt to understand what they are selling. The latest spam was sent to one of my email aliases. Why anyone would buy the stock this guy is pumping, I have no idea. R’umor [...] [...] gets to actually attempt to understand what they are selling. The latest spam was sent to one of my email aliases. Why anyone would buy the stock this guy is pumping, I have no idea. R’umor [...]

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