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Spam from 43Folders?
cromulent | Nov 11 2005
I have a domain, whenever I sign up for a site I set up my email address to be site@domain-name.com. If I get spam, I check the "to:" field to see which address it is going to and consequently, who it came from. Today I received a piece of spam today that was addressed to "43folders@domain-name.com". The only place I used that address was here at these boards and at the wiki so it had to come from one of the two. In my profile I had it set to "Hide your e-mail address but allow form e-mail." so it could have come from there. Does anyone have any idea how else the address could have been spammed? Thanks! 2 Comments
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I guessed that giving an...Submitted by ActionGirl on January 7, 2006 - 8:32am.
I guessed that giving an email address when registering would lead directly to spam, but decided to risk it anyway. That's a cool trick to see where your spam is coming from. Please update us on how much you get. Is there a non-spamming reason for requiring an email? This is the first board I've seen to require an email address to register, though my sample size is admittedly low. » POSTED IN:
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