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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
I got following email addressed to allforummembers at coincomunity.com
There is an authentication warning in the real header of the message
Welcome to the Agarwal
neha agarwal
Matrimonial group
we are pleased to inform you
that you can see here over 45,000 matrimonial
bio-data of brides and grooms of
Agarwal community. If you or your relatives are
looking for a Match or life partner than please visit
the site. [link removed for security reasons by Susanlynn9]
Registration free here
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Moderator
 United States
23540 Posts |
I received the same message - This is being looked into I believe this person is no longer a member of the forum but I am unable to expalain how he got our addresses unless he sent individual emails to each person on the member list. By the way how many wifes did you order  I couldn't afford any more than the one that I have all my funds are tied up in coins and my future coin purchases.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Belgium
2078 Posts |
My criteria were probably too stringent Anyone with less then a 100 MS65 double eagle originals need not apply Dowry goes up exponentially starting at age 20 Dowries in sheep and camels will NOT be acceptable |
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Forum Mom
United States
5877 Posts |
Bobby and I received them also. These were not sent through the forum. They didn't even send it to the email address I have registered with Coin Community.
I have clicked on the Notify Us link at the bottom and reported it to Yahoo for abuse. Once you click on that link, you need to click on What is Yahoo! Groups' policy on spam? link and then the Report link at the bottom of that page.
Yahoo asks for the headers and the body to be copied and pasted into the report form. To copy the headers, right click on the email in your inbox, click on Options, then click on Display Headers. Copy and paste the entire text into the report form.
To copy/paste the body, open the email, right click anywhere in it, click on View Source. Copy and paste the entire text into the report form.
Hope this helps.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
this is one I haven't received, atleast not yet. Do you think that maybe your email addresses are somewhere on the forum (in a post)and they used a spider to crawl around and gather email addresses?
Edited by Bryan1315
08/01/2006 11:34 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
I received that email also,, I did not order any additional wives !!
I used the delete button !!
Like I do with the all the drug sites I get spammed by daily !!
Rick
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
2078 Posts |
About 70% of my email is spam now and adressed to the wrong person
First lesson I learnt , never ever react to spam because they know they have a live one on the other end of the e-line
Top are illigal drugs ( It is illigal to send drugs to Belgium )
Next are all kind of watch replicas
Third are diplomas in a few weeks time
I strongly sustpect some free advisers or informational sites sell the email addresses because trouble only started when I subscribed to a few free services
Last night for the first time I got a drug offer in the name of my wife and I only used that name to register for voting on a song
at a music site registering by way of my yahoo email because I feared spamming
So somebody tracked the song site to the yahoo site to my main email address ( or just bought it )
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
14454 Posts |
I have one specific email address that I never even check that I use to register to websites that require an email address unless I frequent that site quite a bit and I actually want to talk to someone from that specific site (like this one) then I will give an email address that I do use. My yahoo addres is for nothing but spam and they do a poor job of filtering spam out also so I just never check my mail there anymore unless someone specifically tells me they have sent me an email there then I may go and sort through the crud and read that one email
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Most Valued Member
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AFAIK there are no emails available to be collected from any of the forum pages. How was this done, I really can't tell. I didn't get any emails or maybe my spam collector did its job, so can you tell whether the email was addressed to your usernames or was just sent to your emails?
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Forum Dad
United States
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so can you tell whether the email was addressed to your usernames or was just sent to your emails?
Just sent to the emails. They must have been collected by a bot from postings on the forum. I received it also, but to an addy that was never used in any official capacity with the forum, however I did include it in a post here a few times. If it had been any kind of security issue, we'd have hundreds of people in this thread, and emailing me, for sure.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
756 Posts |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
I have posted my email a couple of times ,, I do not do that any longer, If someone needs help with photo's I will email them my email address,, and have for sometime now, but I'm sure that my address is archived within the forum pages.
Rick
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Most Valued Member
11111125 Posts |
Yes, all it takes is to post your email once and then you'll find yourself exposed to this spam.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1152 Posts |
I never got such a message, mbye I'm just lucky... I could do with a couple of wives though...
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1262 Posts |
I did not receive it either...but I do have a spam filter on my system. Pity I could use a few more wives......yeah like a hole in the head...lol |
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Posted 08/01/2006 08:30 am
