Spam from another adult webmaster?

Hi everyone,

Been really out of the loop for some months due to some health issues, trying to get back on my feet again...

Has anyone else been getting spammed by another adult webmaster? In the last week or two, I've been getting a ton of junk mail from this guy -- he uses all kinds of different domains/names for the return address, but they are all originating from the same sending IP address.....

Same thing in every mail -- just an FPA promoting some paysite for a sponsor that he's signed up with.... at first, I was just trashing them with the rest of my junk-mail, but lately, I'm getting a handful of them every day - it's really getting quite annoying. Finally, this morning, I reported his latest one to the sponsor that he was promoting in that particular message...

Funny that this all started just shortly after we had received the snail-mail "form letter" from Acacia too..... weird coincidence, as I have NEVER received any spam at this particular email address before.... could be just coincidence or did acacia sell the info they obtained on us?

Anyway, was just wondering if anyone else has been getting these?

hugs to all,

alethia

[Jim]

I get spams by 100s of people everyday.
Just setup a filter or download the latest version of Eudora. It has a very nice adjustable junk filter.

[urb]

Originally posted by alethia
he uses all kinds of different domains/names for the return address, but they are all originating from the same sending IP address.....

Email headers are likely to be totally spoofed, including the IP.

Sigh... yeah, I can just filter them out.... and if they were just going to one of my "regular" email addresses, it wouldn't bother me so much... I get all the regular viagra, mortgage, breast enlargement, loan, etc etc spam by the thousands at my "regular" addresses & they go to the trash bin automatically...

Maybe I'm weird, but these are just particularly irritating to me, as this is an email address that I've used ONLY for signing up at sponsors/content providers, etc.... so it's been used exclusively in an "adult webmaster only" setting - so it irks me that another webmaster is sending his spam to THIS address...

Maybe I'm just too easily irritated ... was just curious if this had happened to anyone else...

hugs,

Alethia

[Ramster]

Unfortuneately many webmasters spam. I get spam all the time to the email I use only for gallery submissions and the spam is getting worse in there by the day. That email address is not listed anywhere else.

Thanks for your note, Ramster! I guess I was just lucky to not get any before now.... Time to go back to using a zillion different email aliases, so I can at least track where a spammer gets my address from...

hugs,

Alethia

[MrMaryLou]

I wake up to a bigger dick and new mortgage offers daily

[Jim]

We all get tons of spam...
Because sending spam is very very profitable.

To me...I just think of it as my regular mail spam. Except it is easier to push a button to throw in the trash than to lift the lid of my garbage can.

sigh... yeah, I know spam is common - I filter out a bare minimum of 1500 a day because of some older addresses that I still need to keep active for certain purposes..

I guess I just assumed that when one submits info to a sponsor program, or a link list, or other such "webmaster resource", I thought that the info would be "safe" -- obviously I was wrong and it can/will get passed around to spammers too....

hugs,

Alethia

[Tommy]

I wake up to a bigger dick and new mortgage offers daily

Hmm.................
That spam is probably coming from somebody that knows you

[Extreme John]

It's like a commercial on TV, but even better because you dont have to sit through it, you just hit delete and get to the show (the real mail) faster than you ever could when watching TV

[spacemanspiff]

Originally posted by Jim
We all get tons of spam...
Because sending spam is very very profitable.

To me...I just think of it as my regular mail spam. Except it is easier to push a button to throw in the trash than to lift the lid of my garbage can.

Amen brother. I've been preaching that mantra so much my girlfriend is probably sick of it. The spam I get is weightless and odorless. I guess some folks have to drag theirs to the curb in huge, heavy, stinky bundles.

[BigJohn]

Originally posted by Extreme John
It's like a commercial on TV, but even better because you dont have to sit through it, you just hit delete and get to the show (the real mail) faster than you ever could when watching TV

Good points. It does get tougher when you get 500-1000 per day! I have my spam filters set up to deal with 90% of it so it's not too bad.

I'm curious though.... do these spammers who mangle the subject lines (v.i.a.g.r.a, or vi@gra, or v1@gra, etc) really think that just because they made it past my spam filter that I'm going to buy their stuff? After all, the spam filter was set up to throw their messages away to begin with!


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[MrMaryLou]

Originally posted by Tommy
Hmm.................
That spam is probably coming from somebody that knows you

I resemble that

[Jay3]

Oh hey some of my more popular ones are Bigger dick Mortgage and hey I must be addicted to pills too....LOL I don't even get pissed anymore! I just

[Linkster]

Originally posted by alethia
I guess I just assumed that when one submits info to a sponsor program, or a link list, or other such "webmaster resource", I thought that the info would be "safe"
Alethia

I know that with LLs - it "probably" is safe - but sponsors and content providors is a totally different thing
Someone mentioned, but it bears repeating cause I get them all the time from Tommy and others - the headers in the emails are probably being spoofed, so its really hard to tell who is really sending the spam - but with a little look into the "real email header" it can be traced down - I have one that sends me probably 150 a day under a content providors addy - but its really from somebody in Calif using that fake address

[Tommy]

I would like to say this

over the years I have had many companys ask to buy my list of submiter emails, I always refused and always will

no but myself has ever seen this list.

and I have never emailed any webmaster exept in reference to their submits

[Jay3]

Originally posted by Tommy
I would like to say this

over the years I have had many companys ask to buy my list of submiter emails, I always refused and always will

no but myself has ever seen this list.

and I have never emailed any webmaster exept in reference to their submits

This is just one of the reasons you are one of the best out there. (trust)

[Linkster]

Originally posted by Tommy
and I have never emailed any webmaster exept in reference to their submits

Thats the funny part Tommy - I dont know why they always pick you or me or greenie or someone that most people know isn't going to spam a submitter list - Ive even gotten them from my LL addy addressed to one of my other emails
I guess they figure people are going to trust us - so they have a better chance of being opened

I See the same thing when the viral emails are going around

[babymaker]

i'm lucky i guess i really dont get any spam just yahoo group spam since i belong to so many but thoose can be interesting. i have like 5 BS email accounts i use to sign up for any free software or whatever so i really only get some webmaster spam which some of it is good and only maybe 5-12 a day. i really dont mind spam that much like some people said i just click it and trash it. what i really hate is fucking AOL cd's jesus 5 a day come to me and my roommates WTF aol give it up i have highspeed and if you want to send them send 1 a month for me to throw away lol we dont need 5 a day keep your 1800000hours free i dont want one i get yahoo free for life lol. and beat my 1500kbs download speed from road runner lol. i notice no one ever complains about that lol.

aol hehehe

[Jay3]

I can complain about them if you want I hate those bastards....but hey I have thought of a creative way of using those CD's........they work great as coasters, and they are pretty colors

[babymaker]

thats about it lol coasters or frisbee's hehe

[BigJohn]

Originally posted by babymaker
thats about it lol coasters or frisbee's hehe

Or wallpaper... had a friend who covered an entire wall with them. Kind of scary now that I think about it...
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[Jay3]

Hey I think thats a great idea I might try that....LOL|afro|

[babymaker]

heheh i just had an evil thought..u remember the seinfeld episode were kramer takes like 500 pottery barn catalogs that he got in a month and goes to the local store and throws them in to the store lol......how about we all get together and everyone here saves their aol cds they get this month and their friends and we mail back like 500 a day to aol headquarters maybe with a nice bonus in the package like dog shit or something lol...the last part might not be legal lol but we could make it real funny! just a crazy thought lol