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(Message started by: pubgirl on Mar 27^th, 2004, 3:55pm)

Title: Emails from Nigeria
Post by pubgirl on Mar 27^th, 2004, 3:55pm

I am pretty amazed.
I put a brand new email address on public view on my profile here for TWO DAYS ONLY. This email addy has never existed before these two days.

I have so far received 5 offers of huge amounts of money for doing various things to help people who claim to be Nigerian and God fearing.

Is this usual?
How do they do it?
If it happens so readily, those of you who have your email public, how do you cope with it/prevent it?

It's a shame as I was hoping to use this email address specifically for Ch stuff, and now I have to hide it again :(

Wendy

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Superpain on Mar 27^th, 2004, 4:09pm

I have been spam free for over a year on my current address. DO NOT EVER POST YOUR EMAIL IN PUBLIC.
DO NOT EVER GIVE IT IN "PROMOTIONAL OFFERS" OR ANYWHERE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER.
If you want a person to have it, give it to them, otherwise keep it a secret.
It works...

You may as well just go ahead and make up another address cuz it's going to multiply exponentially from here out.

Bastards! >:(

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by pubgirl on Mar 27^th, 2004, 4:13pm

Superpain

I've always done that, but thought I would try briefly and see what happened (hence the two days)

It's a shame, but I suppose I will have to go back to the old secrecy again :'(

W

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Pegase on Mar 27^th, 2004, 4:37pm

I think the way they proceed is by using of sofware that scans the Internet for email address... It's a like a search engine robot who's looing for @ symbol in the web page html code...

Pegase

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Giovanni on Mar 27^th, 2004, 5:25pm

My wife registered for the "Southern living" house sweepstakes. She went from zero emails to about 500 per week.

John

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Rock_Lobster on Mar 27^th, 2004, 5:44pm

www.ebolamonkeyman.com

These guys troll the shit out of those 419 bastards. Quite amusing to see the bad guys on the receiving end.

Rock

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by cootie on Mar 27^th, 2004, 6:01pm

Luckily MOST of my Pam spam my sever catches and puts in a separate mail box I log into to read then do a mass deletion.....but sometimes new emails go there I want to recive so I check in often and approve them to go to my regular mailbox.....catches alot of virus's also. But when I get on ebay to look around I get a ton of spams within minutes.......and when I read online newspapers I get em BAD. If I do a search to look up a med or something medical related I get "tons" of crap to buy shit online without a script....arghhhhhh ! Penis enlargeing includeing how to please a women and buy illegal meds online cheap without a script with teens doin farm animals twist spam Pam

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Giovanni on Mar 27^th, 2004, 7:19pm

Try this free download "ad-aware". It will scan your computer for "spyware" that will generate spam. You'll be surprised at what it finds:

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10045910.html?part=69274&subj=dlpage&tag=button

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Root on Mar 27^th, 2004, 7:39pm

I generaly keep my e-mail hidden. Although I do get spam occasionally forwarded because my address is on someones else's mail client.
Most addresses are harvested by various "spider" programs.
I have several spiders I run on the web searching for specific info in data bases. They are very quick and powerful tools, that like all tools can be abused.

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Superpain on Mar 27^th, 2004, 8:45pm

on 03/27/04 at 19:19:12, Giovanni wrote:

Does that pick up trojans too?
I use spysweeper. You can go to http://www.webroot.com
And run it for free to see what spyware you have on your computer.
Might be interesting to use the adware, then goto webroot and run a check on their site.
You'd be surprised at how many people are tracking and spying on you right now.

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Giovanni on Mar 28^th, 2004, 6:37am

I do not believe that ad-aware will pick up on trojans? You'll have to rely on your anti virus program for that. Here's a nifty utility that is always updated for the latest virus removal (free):

http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger

John
;;D

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Racer1_NC on Mar 28^th, 2004, 10:46am

on 03/27/04 at 17:44:24, Rock_Lobster wrote:

www.ebolamonkeyman.com

These guys troll the shit out of those 419 bastards. Quite amusing to see the bad guys on the receiving end.

Rock

These guys are great.....first time I went to that site I was laughing for hours...

Bill

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by floridian on Mar 28^th, 2004, 11:21pm

Wendy,

its not unusual at all. The spiders mentioned scan tens of thousands of web pages per hour, clipping anything that looks like someone@any.com. (that one will be harvested and will bounce).

Other software guesses email addresses - joe@any.com, joe1@any.com, etc - just feed it a list of companies and a book of names.

Title: Re: Emails from Nigeria
Post by Root on Mar 29^th, 2004, 2:41am

This might help in the future.
Once you are sure that you have removed all the problem children from your machine. Install a program called "Tripwire".
It will snapshot your system. If anyone changes anything it will notify you. You can set it to email you with a I'm ok message at a particular time of day, sayh 5 PM.
If someone puts a trojan, spyware or whatever in. It tells you. If they are smart enough to disable Tripwire, you don't get your AOK message at five. Either way you know someone has been rubbing your rhubarb.

Just a suggestion mind you. Your mileage may differ.

Be carefull out there. OK