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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 7:28 am
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USCGamecock
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Augusta, GA, USA
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Originally Posted by MapleLeaf
Hey Randy,

I am not sure if this is the right forum to ask this but in the past few days my FT only email account has been getting hit with dozens of x-rated spams a day. The title for each email is SEXUALLY EXPLICIT and then a random string of numbers/letters. Prior to that I never got any spam into this account.

The Spam filter is catching all of them, but I am wondering if something changed on your end to make this happen? I know one place I worked they did something to our email database and we went from having passive email addresses to active email addresses and subsequently started getting tons of spam emails a day.

Is this just luck of the draw here or maybe someone kindly signed me up for these emails (has happened before )

Thanks for your assistance.

Cheers,
MapleLeaf
Maybe you're SPAM bait? (Just kidding). Somehow, someway, somebody got linked into your account and once it was known, in came the spam. I'd close it down for awile and let them get bouncebacks. Maybe that will help. Good luck. My FT account hasn't been violated; but the amount of crap on my Yahoo account is a real problem now.
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