A Special Kind of Spammer On Your Subscriber List?

SuzanneH · 10-14-2009, 02:06 PM

I noticed something strange about my list of newsletter subscribers and decided to investigate further. Turns out spammers have been subscribing and then setting their 'vacation reply' e-mail with a spam-filled e-mail. No, this is not regular spam I'm getting; I checked the e-mail addresses in my Aweber account -- they're in there. I have a double opt-in, so somebody actually sat there, filled out the form and confirmed the subscription. Has anybody seen this before? Don't remember it being mentioned...

I probably don't have a lot, but still, it's the principle of the thing. LOL! Just thought I'd pass this along, if you wanted to clean up your lists. So far, it seems to be Hotmail accounts.

Suzanne

dsmpublishing · 10-14-2009, 02:09 PM

Hi suzanne

your not alone with this one - i was looking last night on some outsourcing sites including elance.com and people are advertising for people in asia to do just that all day long via 250 different email addresses so you may find that you have more of them then you think.

I havent had any yet but my outsourcer details with my automated messages as it was just taking up too much of my day to do it all myself.

whenever you see one write down the email addy and then once a week delete them from your account as they is no point wasting lots of time on them doing them all at once.

kind regards

sam
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Paul Myers · 10-14-2009, 02:25 PM

If these are from Hotmail, they're not deliberately spamming. There's been a lot of trouble with Hotmail accounts getting owned because the passwords associated with them were too easy to guess. The people breaking in are setting the autoresponder feature on, and filling in ads for Chinese companies.

If the emails are from private domains, that's an old problem. I just unsubscribe them. Those are mostly ads for MLMs anyway.

Paul

JohnMcCabe · 10-14-2009, 04:22 PM

I don't remember where I saw it, but one company got hacked when a former employee spread the word that the most common password for company log-ins was "password", while the second most popular was "1234"...

10-14-2009, 02:06 PM	#1
SuzanneH Weight Loss Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 630 Thanks: 67 Thanked 68 Times in 59 Posts	A Special Kind of Spammer On Your Subscriber List? I noticed something strange about my list of newsletter subscribers and decided to investigate further. Turns out spammers have been subscribing and then setting their 'vacation reply' e-mail with a spam-filled e-mail. No, this is not regular spam I'm getting; I checked the e-mail addresses in my Aweber account -- they're in there. I have a double opt-in, so somebody actually sat there, filled out the form and confirmed the subscription. Has anybody seen this before? Don't remember it being mentioned... I probably don't have a lot, but still, it's the principle of the thing. LOL! Just thought I'd pass this along, if you wanted to clean up your lists. So far, it seems to be Hotmail accounts. Suzanne

10-14-2009, 02:09 PM	#2
dsmpublishing Banned War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Portugal Posts: 1,738 Blog Entries: 209 Thanks: 104 Thanked 228 Times in 161 Posts Social Networking	Re: A Special Kind of Spammer On Your Subscriber List? Hi suzanne your not alone with this one - i was looking last night on some outsourcing sites including elance.com and people are advertising for people in asia to do just that all day long via 250 different email addresses so you may find that you have more of them then you think. I havent had any yet but my outsourcer details with my automated messages as it was just taking up too much of my day to do it all myself. whenever you see one write down the email addy and then once a week delete them from your account as they is no point wasting lots of time on them doing them all at once. kind regards sam X

10-14-2009, 02:25 PM	#3
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