From that, I'd say your email address/es have made it to the millions CDs
and are being bought/sold on a daily basis and the amount of spam you'll get
will probably only increse. It's too late to do much about it on those
email accounts. There likely is nothing you can do to get rid of it short
of getting a new email address AND learning how not to expose it to
spammers.
If you're intersted in how to keep spam at bay, MS has lots of good info,
Google will get you lots of links. Also google for "safe hex" for even more
info.
The very first think you need to do is remove your real e-mail address from
newsgroups! Spammers have software that does nothing but scan newsgroups
looking for addresses to add to their list of addresses.
Then get a free throw-away email address from any number of places, and
use that whenever you must give an address to a place that isn't a trusted
relative or person; never use your main email address for siging up for
things, anything.
Then get a new email address that can't easily be guessed by software,
known as "dictionaired" by the spammers. They found aalaan, so they're
probably also sending to every form of that name imaginable, and then
appending 1, 2, 3, ... 9999 to the names to get the duplicates.
The safest username against dictionary spam is one with digits in the
middle of it somewhere, like aa456laan. Those become very hard to guess.
But that's only the tip of the iceberg.
www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/spam.html
wikopedia.com search for spam
spamcop.net
cauce.org
microsoft.com
spamabuse.net
abuse.net
spamfighter.com
winpatrol.com
spamlaws.com
spamassassin.apache.org
etc etc etc. Many good, many bad; most make good reading on how to protect
yourself.
HTH
Pop
aalaan wrote:
Further to that, I also get offers by the hundred every week to
improve my erection (!) but I would think editing a book on garden
trowels is more likely to do that then the stuff being touted (again
complete with reams of meaningless drivel - incomplete nonsensical
sentences, reams of 'keywords' that aren't and other stuff the
purpose of which entirely defeats me). Off now to edit a book on
garden trowels...
"aalaan" wrote in message
...
But do those reports ever lead to anything? I get 'share purchase'
spams/scams by the hundred every week (complete with reams of
meaningless drivel -- why do they do that?). Is there any point in
reporting these spam/scams? What actually gets done?
"Pop`" wrote in message
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Graham Mayor wrote:
Of course it is: But, what did YOU do about it?
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