UTV - leaking email addresses???

tman

well, since signing up with utvip/xl my dad has started getting substantial ammounts of spam delivered to the email address he used to sign up with.
before that he got maybe 2 a week, now he's getting 10+ a day...
he hasn't signed up with anything else for the last 2 weeks & the spam started the day after we made the changeover...
is it possible that this is due to utv in any way?

mike65

Interesting....I've noticed the amount of spam has jumped in recent months but I put that down to the fact that junk mail has reached epidemic proportions. I'm going to keep an eye on which account the mail is posted to for the next few days....

edit> Just browsed my trash in the mail programme and its a mixed bag of receiving addys so I can't point the finger at utv. Spam is out of control.

Mike.

sceptre

Originally posted by tman

he hasn't signed up with anything else for the last 2 weeks & the spam started the day after we made the changeover...
is it possible that this is due to utv in any way?

Not a chance of even a deliberate sharing of your email address making it to the spammers lists that quickly. These lists take time to filter down and sell and forward.

Doubtless someone from UTV will make a quick post stressing that they don't pass on email addresses but even if they don't it's not realistic that this happened that quickly.

(edit: changed "no" to "on". I really hate typos that make me look as if I never went to English class. Yes, I'm anal-retentive. Pooh (no pun intended) to the lot of you)

Urban Weigl

Highly unlikely.

tman

yeah, i find it hard to believe that they're to blame myself, can't think of any other way to explain the increase in spam tho...

Páid

Utv seem to have more of their fair share of SPAM. I've never used the email address I signed up with anywhere and I get tons of SPAM daily through it.

You can turn on SPAM filtering though - http://u.tv/support/ans.asp?id=196&category=email

eth0_

I don't think i've ever received spam to my utvinternet.com address, and I don't have spam filtering enabled on the webmail control panel.

morgana

I have had a utv email account for over a year (I don't really use it though) and it gets no spam at all. I would consider it very unlikely for a compnay like utv to bother with selling email addresses. And spammers actually autogenerate addresses for known domains ...

Cheers

RicardoSmith

I've had none through mine. Don't use it myself either.

If you signed up with something obvious, John Smith etc. its likely you would get targeted by autogenerated spam anyway. Best to use something like 3c5vc94n etc.

Slutmonkey57b

I've never once recieved any spam mail to any of my accounts - but again, I've never used obvious addresses and most important I don't go throwing my address about. Don't forget spammers have bots trawling the net pulling email addresses out of weblinks.

Ultimately there's nothing you can do other than track down the 40 guys responsible for 90% of spam in Boca Raton, and cut their goolies off, threaten to kill their dog and tell them never to do it again.

eth0_

Originally posted by Slutmonkey57b

Ultimately there's nothing you can do other than track down the 40 guys responsible for 90% of spam in Boca Raton, and cut their goolies off, threaten to kill their dog and tell them never to do it again.

Did you read Doors in the Sunday Times today too?

tman

well my dads email addy is his first name followed by 2 numbers @eircom.net
my eircom.net hasn't recieved any spam in the last 5 months...
so that kind of rules out the autogenerate one

BoB_BoT

tman, by any chance did your dad try to unsubscribe to one of the spam mails? if he did it's the worst possable thing to do! did that once with another account as a test, spam mail trippled in 3 days.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by tman
well my dads email addy is his first name followed by 2 numbers @eircom.net
my eircom.net hasn't recieved any spam in the last 5 months...
so that kind of rules out the autogenerate one

Name(number)@whatever would be perfect for autogeneration.

Dave01@whatever
Dave02@whatever
Dave02@whatever

Thats one of the first patterns you'd use. Just blind luck that the error com one hasn't been hit. Assuming his first name isn't something like "rdtwfss345dfs$$^$"

Martin-UTVi

Doubtless someone from UTV will make a quick post stressing that they don't pass no email addresses but even if they don't it's not realistic that this happened that quickly

We do not pass on customers email addresses.