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Thread: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

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    Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    I normally receive almost no spam at all in my primary mailbox, maybe one message a month maximum (partly because I use a second mail box for anything commercial). Now all of a sudden my primary mailbox is flooded with spam. This began on Saturday and Sunday with maybe five or six spam messages (a huge increase for me) out of twenty or thirty, now when I opened my mail box this morning I had perhaps fifteen spam messages out of the thirty or so total. I note that this sudden increase in spam coincided almost to the minute with the change in the way this forum works. This could of course just be a coincidence but it seems an odd one if it is. Is there any possibility that somehow this new system allows spammers to grab our email addresses? Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    That's strange, Brian. None of the user information is incorporated in the body of the forum text that spiders crawl, however, so I don't think your sudden increase relates to the forum.

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    Ralph, I'm experiencing it this morning the same as Brian is and you just fixed my login/registration problem late last night.

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    Strange, indeed. I haven't seen any increase. But, perhaps Tom may have some ideas.

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    My volume is about the same as usual (annoyingly high). I would be very surprised if they are getting the address from us, since the address isn't displayed to anyone on the site--I don't think you could dispay it if you tried to.

    If you want, send me a PM with all the headers from two or threee example spams and I'll see if it sheds any light.

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    No increase here.

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    Mine's about the same too... just the regular crap!

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    "If you want, send me a PM with all the headers from two or threee example spams and I'll see if it sheds any light.[/QUOTE]"

    Thanks for the offer Tom. I deleted all of the ones I got this morning so I don't have anything immediate to sent. I looked in my mail box a few minutes ago and didn't see any new spam. So maybe this is just an odd conincidence that won't be repeated. If it does though I'll forward a few on to you. I

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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    I've received 11 notifications from 9 different countries that my PayPal account was being used in a suspicious manner and if I'll only follow this link and give them all the information they need to empy my Paypal account and the associated credit card and checking account, then all will be well. I've used the WHOIS utility to locate the originating server and sent copies of the headers to the ISPs involved. They won't do anything; but it sure makes me feel better.
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    Re: Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

    I haven't experienced any increase in spam so far.

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