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A Special Kind of Spammer On Your Subscriber List?

by SuzanneH
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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
#kind #list #spammer #special #subscriber
  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    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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    • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
      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.


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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        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"...
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