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Post by Raffles on Mar 22, 2015 19:27:53 GMT
clairea... once you've sent your first email from your address, someone, somewhere will have access to it. Just like postal addresses get junk mail, so it is with email addys. Big business, selling lists. Don't get paranoid about it, but just be careful what you use them for, and especially what personal details you put in them. I was lucky, a King in Nigeria got hold of mine and traced an inheritance I was due. About £5 trillion I was told. Haven't heard back yet though, after I sent him my bank details!
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Post by clairea on Mar 22, 2015 20:00:19 GMT
But I never sent them a first email never seen the site before Raffles that was the issue
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Post by Raffles on Mar 22, 2015 20:08:01 GMT
But I never sent them a first email never seen the site before Raffles that was the issue Sorry, a bit of misunderstanding... I meant that ANYONE can get hold of an email address if they know where and spam the hell out of them. However, in this case, it would appear they have concentrated on this (and probably other forums) to get a 'targetted' market for their wares.
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Post by mattyjones1977 on Mar 22, 2015 20:08:30 GMT
It's the Internet clairea once information is out there its out there for ever there's no such thing as privacy lol. If you're bothered about a little spam email then use a Hotmail address for registering on sites
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Post by Jerri on Mar 22, 2015 20:10:48 GMT
But I never sent them a first email never seen the site before Raffles that was the issue I Believe raffles meant any email. Not specifically an email to the company in question. When you first set up an email address and send an email to whomever that's it. Your email address is out in the world. When you sign up for anything, a forum, an online vendor etc. Anything. Many companies sell lists of emails to make a few £. Your email address was visible here. Anyone looking at your profile could have got it then shared it. The email should have an unsubscribe link. Click it. Unsubscribe from their mailing list. And think no more about it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 20:35:29 GMT
If you're a c and I'm an s, they took their own sweet time to mail me! Just got it and off it went into junk
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Post by Chrissie on Mar 22, 2015 20:58:17 GMT
clairea I've just checked your profile via a non staff Id (Isaac) & your email addie is no longer showing. As for professorvape1 - they appear to have 2 ids professorvape so banning both of them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 21:00:42 GMT
They need a slap Chrissie. Blummin' cheeky beggars!
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Post by Chrissie on Mar 22, 2015 21:04:11 GMT
They need a slap Chrissie. Blummin' cheeky beggars! I'm furious & disgusted with them for stooping do low
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Post by igual on Mar 22, 2015 21:04:27 GMT
I have several email accounts, one for forums websites etc that I trust. One for campaigns random crud where I know it will get spammed. And one for friends n family,bank,pp etc.
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Post by Raffles on Mar 22, 2015 21:05:30 GMT
clairea I've just checked your profile via a non staff Id (Isaac) & your email addie is no longer showing. As for professorvape1 - they appear to have 2 ids professorvape so banning both of them. Chrissie... I love it when you get masterful mistressful (is that a word?) Thanks for covering everyone's backs.
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Post by Chrissie on Mar 22, 2015 21:32:30 GMT
clairea I've just checked your profile via a non staff Id (Isaac) & your email addie is no longer showing. As for professorvape1 - they appear to have 2 ids professorvape so banning both of them. Chrissie... I love it when you get masterful mistressful (is that a word?) Thanks for covering everyone's backs. Lol Raffles It's thanks to jess alerting me to this thread, so I could act as soon as I signed in tonight.
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Post by clairea on Mar 22, 2015 21:50:10 GMT
I don't know if they got them from here but it does look like it I know I hadn't heard of them before this morning I do have a few email addresses, but this one was my main one, I get to easily brain fogged and yes I know it was my fault I hadn't checked privacy settings and email was out there for all to see but don't expext to be spammed by supposed vendors without them asking permission, Looking at their profile that perpetua posted they hadn't even bothered to post on the forum, Other people use social media or others form to advertise their business without thrusting it down your faces by pinching emails of forums unless it's Viagra or penis enlargement and I never get any of those on my email. I rarely get spam emails from companies I haven't signed up for, unless I use my yahoo account, which is my main one for joining most things, I did a google search on all my emails the one I used for this account only comes up with this nothing else my yahoo comes up with lots of rubbish, just goes to show Gmail value privacy more than yahoo. obviously if they were still sending emails this evening then someone was busy going through the members list
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Post by Chrissie on Mar 22, 2015 21:58:40 GMT
clairea they couldn't post on the forum as they had been put in the unregistered vendor group. And it can't have been them going through the members list tonight as they hadn't logged into the forum since 5th March.
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Post by Phoenixflame (Julie) on Mar 22, 2015 22:30:00 GMT
I had an email from that company a few days ago, and have never heard of them. I am pretty sure that my email addy is not visible on here, so I guess that a vendor may be selling lists.
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