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phillywood

phillywood

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About a week or two ago I posted about my IAP email that I got hacked, well today I got this email and called RIAA to verify that and they said they have been getting calls about this all morning.

So, I guess I have to block my email address form this site.

Do not open anything on this email if you got it too.



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  • hxxxxx@yahoo.com This is mine as you can check you probably have recieved emails coming to your email address that you put in your profile on IAP.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:07 AM

Dear xxxx@yahoo.com, hereby we notify you that your IP address has been identified as distributing copyrighted content. Please see the attachment to this message for illicit Internet traffic details.
Failure to respond to this message within 14 days will result in copyright infringement accusation and standard legal procedures.



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When I managed a website and forum, I used to get frequent emails from members that "knew" their email had been hacked from the forum.
Funny a google search on their email address usually turned up a half dozen hits.
 
Phillip:
This is what is known as a "bulk dump, bulk grab, pop grab, etc".

If you look at all of the e-mail addresses (and I'd be really mad if one of those addresses were mine and you exposed me) they all come in alphabetical order on the yahoo server.

A bot is just going down the alphabet on yahoo's server, sending this message to everyone. You haven't been "hacked", it didn't come from this forum or any other. Somebody is just phishing the yahoo email pop server. This happens everyday of the week.

If this is the first time you' ve gotten one of these, you've been extremely lucky. I get so many emails from the National Bank of Nigeria that I am on a first name basis with the "president".

If you get a government check of any type, next time you get one copy down the bank information. Then send these criminals the name : Barack Obama, the FBIs address in your town, and the bank Informatio on the "government check". I bet you emails will stop. Mine did:)
 
Phillip, do what I do. My website provider allows me 500 emails, evertime I join a new forum or need to give out an address to get information I want I make a new one up. I start getting spammed I know exactly where it came from, delete the address and it doesn't affect anything else. Right now I'm jusing just over 50, my wife has a few in use as well.
 
Rick_G said:
Phillip, do what I do. My website provider allows me 500 emails, evertime I join a new forum or need to give out an address to get information I want I make a new one up. I start getting spammed I know exactly where it came from, delete the address and it doesn't affect anything else. Right now I'm jusing just over 50, my wife has a few in use as well.
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Thats not a bad idea, but is basically what Phillip did. However, that does not guarantee the source of the leak or spam. Just like Penman wrote, it is possible for spammers to hammer the server to put things out, its just that some providers are better than others at blocking that kind of garbage.
 
Philly, I typed your email address that you had posted earlier into google, and found an email-exchange website where your email is posted in the clear, in a thread warning about a virus from an attachment that was mass-sent to the people in the group...low-carb recipe exchange from yahoo...it's dated 2010, so that's probably the source of your email issues.

Here it is, for your records, Philly - hope that helps!:
Yahoo! Groups
 
Phillip

You posted about this in January. Although you have claimed that the email address you used for your IAP account was used nowhere else, I explained a month ago that someone you exchange email with posted your email address in the clear on a low carb recipe Yahoo group, and that I found your email posted elsewhere in the clear as well.

Your continued claims that the IAP database has somehow been breached and allowed email addresses to be harvested is just wrong, and your explanations about this situation mislead people regarding our ability to protect private information. Your incorrect explanations for why you are receiving spam are reflecting poorly on the IAP and on my personal ability to maintain appropriate security on personal information.

My suggestion is that you try to understand the root cause of your issues and deal with it or accept it and stop trying to blame us for the problem.
 
Jeff, This email was not to complain about IAP. it was a warning that if anyone got this email just ignore it since I took the time to call the agency and verify the accuracy of this email and also whether or not they have sent that to me. an the minute that I called and got connected I was asked if I received this email. I was just trying to warn other people about this problem and not complaining. I am also going to block that email address and create something new for my emails form friends her eon IAP.
To everyone else I appreciate all of your advises and sorry if this raised any confusion. That was not meant to be conveyed here.
 
Phil here is your problem, or rather the problem you are creating. Your subject line is
If yougot this email coming to your IAP email address

Why did you feel the need to make it "your IAP email address", why not just email address? Just your subject line alone insinuates that IAP has something to do with this. If that was the case do you really think there would be all these people still here and supporting the IAP? I think you would need about 100+ people on here with emails outside of Yahoo to say they are getting this before IAP could even be considered as a source for your problem.
 
HMMMM

If a day went by with no spam emails - I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven. I get probably 40 or so emails a day with probably 30 or so discarded without being opened. It is the way of the world today. I get phoney emails from two of my daughters' email addresses - subject line gives them away - also the fact that my daughters NEVER in their lives have called me by my first name - it's "dad". (or "daddy" if they want something from me).
 
I will add that I got one of those also before I read yours, along with 11 Russian, pills and porn spam on yahoo! just a daily occurrence.

Like my summons from new york state for a traffic ticket that I must pay by credit card or they will come and arrest me :eek: I haven't been in the state of new york in over 10 years. :rolleyes:

That's what the don't read/delete button is for! I googled the new york traffic ticket one and read all about it, it is from one of the russkie stan countries.
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For what it's worth

I have a Yahoo email address that I have not used for almost 4 years and it never was my main email addy. I just checked and I had 94 emails in the in box (last checked about the beginning of the year) and 177 in the spam folder that are 30 days or less old. Roughly 40 emails a week to an address that no one has gotten for at least 3 years, and that has not responded to an email in the same length of time. I used that address when I was selling coins on Yahoo Auctions - I think 2005 was the last year but it might have been 2004. I then used it to keep in touch with a few people that had it. My current computer is 3 years old and I never used it on this machine. Now and then I go clean out the garbage. Spam get's emails from wherever they can and we might as well get used to that.
 
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