If your computer gets compromised by a virus/malware/spyware, it can read the contents of your mail folders in Outlook Express (or your mail client of choice, but usually Outlook/OE), and send the e-mail addresses it finds to a compromised server somewhere to get added to a spam list. I might be teaching granny to suck eggs, but you might want to make sure you have an up-to-date virus scanner, and run an adware/malware scan such as Adaware or Windows Defender.

This could be how your FT e-mail address has started getting penis enlargement mail.

I too have a dedicated e-mail address for FT and to date the only spam received there was the IB one today.

Mike

I don't claim to be an expert on computer security, but I send 50+ emails a day out into the world using my regular work email address and have probably received 3-4 total SPAM emails in the last two years. I do regularly run virus and adware scans.

Your company likely has a low-spam tolerance and is deleting them before you see them.

I am sure we recognise that. :cool:

Folks as Koko said, things are evolving. They always have here, and always will. If we do not like it, don't visit or don't post, and clearly not much of that is occurring! ;)

FWIW they did not email me .. wonder if it was somehow USA targeted?

I'm sure that IB also knows that if they blow it with FlyerTalk many many of us will follow Randy to whatever venture he may (be contractually allowed to) start.

Or somewhere else completely..

I've been following the various threads in both ORP & Tech issues.

I get that those of us (like me) have the 'Premium' issue don't get the ads - haven't seen anyone's private parts yet ;). So that part is working. But I also don't think it's fair to others by other Premium members on this thread who have paid the $12 to avoid vagina shots to say 'ante up or quit your b*tch'in'. Come on folks. Porn? They should not have to ante up $12 to avoid that.

And yes it was only FT that promised your info is safe but IB took it over, so either they abide by it or they don't. Which now that IB has gotten their input (and it's not been good), seems like they'll do in the future.

Heck I would not have minded getting a 1-time SPAM (and I think others are the same, although I'm projecting) - IF it said it was 1-time only, it provided an opt-in, not just an opt-out & even if it was an opt-out, an opt-out that worked (which I'm assuming they've done by now given the potential for the CAN-SPAM against them).

And if they had done a message at the top of the forums, 'we're thinking of offering travel related emails (such as was received by everyone) & would you like to get them, click here for yes/click here for no', that would have basically solved all the complaint issues (at least for the travel stuff - not re: the porn). Those who were interested would say yes/the rest no, and everyone's email would be safe. They blew that one.

What I will NOT give IB a pass on is from what I've read on this forum & in tech issues is where FTers are getting malware & trojans which are infecting their computers - and no, not all those people are luddites w/ no protection at all. AFAIK my computer is ok, but now I'm bringing someone in to check it out. And I use my computer primarily for bizness (although obviously I surf FT). If malware/trojans from FT/IB had damaged it, they'd be hearing from me in a more direct fashion than posting on FT. Granted I think I'm ok, but if not a 'we're checking into it' post on FT would not suffice. And given IB's offices are about 2 miles from my place I'd demand a tech visit to sort it all out. Others geography might not work so well. ;)

OVMV. Cheers.

I got it - as did at least one other person in the UK.

I also received the IBTravelDeals.com spam to a dedicated FT-only email address. Not happy. :mad: I am in Australia with a .org email address.

Nope- I got it in Ireland.

Oz, I didn't get it in Israel. In view of the posts that I cited above, it can not be because of our non-US addresses.

I can only figure that the e-mail was sent out by a beautiful woman with good taste -- and you I both know that such women never write to us!

Another possibility is that your SPAM filter either on your ISP's end or on your end caught the email and removed it for you.

Dan

That's exactly what happened to me, because I have my email registered at another IB site and must have at some point marked IB emails as spam.

But again, I fully EXPECT IB to send me 'helpful and relevant offers.' Like you folks never get 'helpful and relevant offers' from EVERY other business-owned IBB you sign up on!?

That's what internet businesses do! @:-)

Only if I explicitly opt-in to the communication. If I say that I don't want e-mail about services I might be interested in, I expect that choice to be respected. On FT, I have not opted in.

As a rule, I don't opt in. There's only one site I'm a member of which requires that I receive their e-mails as a condition of membership. Their emails go straight to /dev/null on principle.

While I'm not to the point of outrage and wanting to storm IB with torch and pitchfork in hand (there's really not enough pitchfork-based mobs these days!), this fails the smell test.

I got the email; my yahoo! email sent it to the spam folder.

I don't see what the big fuss is all about, since my email address wasn't sold to or shared with outside parties. The email came from the owner of Flyertalk. I don't think my intial sign-up agreement with Flyertalk prohibits the owner from emailing me.