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Anyone seen this email from screwyou . com?

by sentient
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Received a really weird email today to my main gmail account (ie one I don't normally use for registering on article sites etc).

"You participate in Spam and have no Integrity

You should be charged with spam laws in many countries. You and your product haveno integrity at all. You show neophyte attitudes towards people as I am sure you product does.

You server should be attacked by hackers be subjected to DOS attacks to shut it down.

Do you understand that there are forums out on the web exactly for this. To focus attacks on spammers sites?

Keep it up, I am sure you are a prime canadidat for ths."

Anyone else seen anything like this? Seems strange because it's been sent to me, direct to my email address.

I don't think I do anything particularly spammy - I do affiliate marketing and dropshipping, the usual type of link building, article marketing, forum posting (nothing spammy though).

Seemed a bit weird!
#email #screwyou
  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    The site looks to be porn. You are on a spam list to get mail possibly. File it in the recycle bin.

    Were you addressed by name?
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  • Profile picture of the author sentient
    No, I wasn't addressed by name. Seems a weird way to spam me, because there was no link to the porn website, just the email address that it was sent from, which was screwyou @ screwyou . com.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_Willow
    The spelling is off and as far as I remember it was ddos attacks not dos.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sour
    If it's truly an email address that's strictly for personal use, then I'm saying you probably received that email by mistake. Just look how the guy types. It's very likely he misspelled the email address of the actual person, too.

    Not to mention, spammers love using email addresses like JohnDoe(@)gmail.com (not enough posts to have an actual email address in here) to make it look more legitimate. Your name could've been unluckily selected, but the guy was too stupid to know any better.

    All in all, it was probably a fluke.
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  • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
    You could have a bot on your system sending spams out and the person replied to one of them.

    Scan your PC and install a firewall.
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    • Profile picture of the author sentient
      Originally Posted by GarrieWilson View Post

      You could have a bot on your system sending spams out and the person replied to one of them.

      Scan your PC and install a firewall.
      That's a good point Garrie, I hadn't thought of that. I usually use SpyBot and have AVG installed. Is there anything you would specifically use to check for this type of thing?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tony Dean
        I would not rely on AVG! I tried it about three years ago and had to uninstall it three times in as many months due to the fact it caught a virus and then let trojans in left right and center.

        Use Kaspersky Anti Virus - yes it cost money - but it keeps the nasties out - unlike AVG.
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        • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
          Originally Posted by Tony Dean View Post

          I would not rely on AVG! I tried it about three years ago and had to uninstall it three times in as many months due to the fact it caught a virus and then let trojans in left right and center.

          Use Kaspersky Anti Virus - yes it cost money - but it keeps the nasties out - unlike AVG.
          I've had AVG (paid) for a little over 2 years on 3 systems with ZERO virus issues.

          It has caught everything that people/sites tried to put on.

          Most virus issues are related to a users surfing habbits.
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          • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
            Originally Posted by GarrieWilson View Post

            I've had AVG (paid) for a little over 2 years on 3 systems with ZERO virus issues.

            It has caught everything that people/sites tried to put on.

            Most virus issues are related to a users surfing habbits.
            I have run the paid version of avg for three years now . No problems whatsoever
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        • Profile picture of the author sentient
          Originally Posted by Tony Dean View Post

          I would not rely on AVG! I tried it about three years ago and had to uninstall it three times in as many months due to the fact it caught a virus and then let trojans in left right and center.

          Use Kaspersky Anti Virus - yes it cost money - but it keeps the nasties out - unlike AVG.
          Heard good things about Kaspersky, but last time I installed it, it caused too many problems on my PC, that took me a long time to sort out. Never heard of that happening to anyone else, so I must have got unlucky, but I'm not doing it again!
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  • Profile picture of the author Instructor
    He may just be harvesting gmail emails and sending out spam to generate traffic to the @name of his own email.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sour
    It's not a virus because it wouldn't be using your personal gmail address; it'd be using you as a proxy to send anonymous email. Chances are it was just a fluke.

    If his message wanted to retain any credibility, he wouldn't be sending you unsolicited, anonymous email himself (screwyou@screwyou.com is obviously not his email address).
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    • Profile picture of the author GarrieWilson
      Originally Posted by Sour View Post

      It's not a virus because it wouldn't be using your personal gmail address; it'd be using you as a proxy to send anonymous email. Chances are it was just a fluke.
      Not always true.

      It could to beat filters. And depending on how it's written, it could because it's also emailing people he knows. Which could increase open rates and click throughs.

      Chances are, it's not a zombie mailer or virus but I would still do a few full system scans.

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    • Profile picture of the author sentient
      Originally Posted by Sour View Post

      It's not a virus because it wouldn't be using your personal gmail address; it'd be using you as a proxy to send anonymous email. Chances are it was just a fluke.

      If his message wanted to retain any credibility, he wouldn't be sending you unsolicited, anonymous email himself (screwyou@screwyou.com is obviously not his email address).
      The email he sent me (from screwyou@screwyou.com) was accusing me of being a spammer, not trying to spam me with anything.
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      • Profile picture of the author Sour
        Originally Posted by GarrieWilson View Post

        Not always true.

        It could to beat filters. And depending on how it's written, it could because it's also emailing people he knows. Which could increase open rates and click throughs.

        Chances are, it's not a zombie mailer or virus but I would still do a few full system scans.
        I see what you're saying now. A scan wouldn't hurt, but I still have my money on the whole thing being a fluke.

        Originally Posted by sentient View Post

        The email he sent me was accusing me of being a spammer, not trying to spam me with anything.
        I realize that, but his email was still unsolicited and anonymous.
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