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Apr 11, 2014 | 9:35 am

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chgoeditor

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Someone used my email to subscribe to mailing lists

Last night I started getting a barrage of emails confirming my subscription to all sorts of mailing lists. None were subscriptions I requested.

(I have a fairly common name and I was an early email adopter, so my email address is [email protected]. It's possible someone was maliciously subscribing me to spam, but there are an amazing number of people out there who mistakenly assume my email address is their own.)

Many of these emails are bypassing my spam filter, so I've been unsubscribing as they arrive. A few have provided the the IP address from which the subscription requests were made--a Charter Communications IP address in Cape Girardeau, MO. (I know no one in that part of Missouri.) Armed with that IP address, are there any additional steps I can take to put a halt to this influx of unwanted emails?

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