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We HAVE SPAMMERS AMONG US

by jideofor
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its really surprising that this could be from here. do you see the email id in my sig? i have never displayed it elsewhere apart from this forum and i am get newsletters from a list that i never subscribed to. the first time i noticed this, i unsubscribe but the owner redid it. i am glad that the email is for a separate use and its not actual email . watchout people.
#spammers
  • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
    lol...

    I guess no one ever told you that you should never display your email anywhere on the internet where it can be read by bots that scrape the web to add you to spam lists.

    Time to change your sig ;-)

    Spammers or not...

    You should really change your sig. It's not doing you any favors nor is it an effective way of building credibility.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    Spammers here? Gee, what a surprise!
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    That doesn't mean there is a spammer here. Spammers often collect email addresses by scanning web pages for email. Your email address is now on over 200 pages on this site - plus probably sites scraping the forum for content.

    Anyway, if you post your email address in a sig don't you want someone to notice and send you email?

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  • Profile picture of the author sturmbro629
    no...i couldn't imagine anyone using the internet for any shady activity!
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  • Profile picture of the author Owen Smith
    Emails are scrapped, show your email and a little bot will come along, pick it up, plant it in its db and spam the hell out of you!
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Your email address is wide open for the world to see. You should probably change your sig. Though your address has probably already been scraped and dumped into a spam DB.
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Yeah, posting your email online is a pretty bad idea. Oh well...you live and you learn right?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
    The spam you'll be receiving has just begun. Spammers have bots scouring the Internet looking for email addresses. That "mailto:" is an open invention to spammers. And your email address is now indexed in over 100 pages by google alone.



    I would dump that email address and start with another and don't link it in public forums, websites, etc.
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    Banned
    Yep ... you can probably count that email as a garbage acct. lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
    Welcome to the internet!!

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    • Profile picture of the author Becker13
      Banned
      Originally Posted by mojojuju View Post

      Welcome to the internet!!
      High value post!
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      • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
        Originally Posted by Becker13 View Post

        High value post!
        As was yours.
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        • Profile picture of the author theemperor
          Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

          As was yours.
          High value post!
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          • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
            Not sure which I find more bizarre.

            The fact the OP is surprised this has happened or the fact that the OP still has the email in his signature. :rolleyes::confused:
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            • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
              in The case of forum sigs it 's not much help but on your website for instance the "contact us" page you need to us a server side email script else you are wide open to spammers and in some cases hackers. using a server side script removes that vulnerability.
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          • Profile picture of the author Tyke
            Originally Posted by theemperor View Post

            High value post!
            What happened to the $5 Warrior offer in your sig? I clicked on it to try to get more info and it took me straight to PayPal at a cost of $67. What a bargain! Can we try that again?
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    • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
      Originally Posted by mojojuju View Post

      Welcome to the internet!!
      She NEEDS to wave at me when I finally find the "end of the internet!"
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    • Profile picture of the author Tyke
      Originally Posted by mojojuju View Post

      Welcome to the internet!!
      Nice one!
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Even on the contact pages in my websites I display an image (a jpeg) with my contact info. It is not clickable, but the bots can't see it.

    :-Don
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    • Profile picture of the author SKWeaver
      Originally Posted by Don Schenk View Post

      Even on the contact pages in my websites I display an image (a jpeg) with my contact info. It is not clickable, but the bots can't see it.

      :-Don
      Great advice, Don. It takes a little time, but it's well worth it. It's good to use an image for email addresses in privacy policies and tos, too.
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    • Profile picture of the author mspiva1
      Originally Posted by Don Schenk View Post

      Even on the contact pages in my websites I display an image (a jpeg) with my contact info. It is not clickable, but the bots can't see it.

      :-Don
      This is a great idea to avoid some spam. We're getting to the point that all contact information on the Internet has be treated and guarded like a social security number!
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      Originally Posted by Don Schenk View Post

      Even on the contact pages in my websites I display an image (a jpeg) with my contact info. It is not clickable, but the bots can't see it.

      :-Don
      Don, there's ways to make email addresses clickable that cannot be read by bots.

      Here's a working example of one such method that uses Javascript to obfuscate the email address (look at the source code & you won't find the email address anywhere) .

      It's all done with Javascript and you can generate your own bot-proof mailto links at Dynamic Drive
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  • Profile picture of the author b1833
    They use that technique of posting email addresses to internet to create "honey pots" to collect spam. It helps training the spam filters with very low risk of false positives.

    Just goes to show the days of spammer email harvesting are not over.
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    • Profile picture of the author N4PGW
      Originally Posted by b1833 View Post

      They use that technique of posting email addresses to internet to create "honey pots" to collect spam. It helps training the spam filters with very low risk of false positives.

      Just goes to show the days of spammer email harvesting are not over.
      Maybe I should do this. Post a false email addy so I can trap the ips of spam domains.
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      • Profile picture of the author Itachi
        Originally Posted by N4PGW View Post

        Maybe I should do this. Post a false email addy so I can trap the ips of spam domains.
        Aha that sounds awesome, you inspire me .

        That's like the way to go.



        For any additional information feel free to contact me at : dumbspammers@dumbspam.com

        Scrapy-Scrape..

        Lol eat this Noobs personal revenge for all the spam they ever dared to send me !
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  • Profile picture of the author Nanaswhimsy
    The ones that are Aggravating me have an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email that gves you a 404 error!
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    There are people who don't have a clue among us...
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  • Profile picture of the author g36
    I don't think so. Spammers can easily scan people's emails from the internet. It doesn't mean we have spammers here in this forum as member. And displaying your email publicly is dangerous. Not just spam emails that you'll get, but also scam emails and hack attempts.

    I can easily get people's emails from this forum by typing this at google search:
    "@gmail.com" site:warriorforum.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
    Whats a Email?
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    lots of spammers here but we are on the best Im forums which is paradise for sigs and seo related stuff
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    Anti-Spam software to stop spammers from spamming. Get the free SpamItBack! software!
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  • Profile picture of the author glinda2011
    You will not get spam if you won't let it.
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  • Profile picture of the author N4PGW
    We have spammers selling WSOs. I had to start using disposible email addresses as my primary email for PP. Because I buy something and suddenly get bombarded by spam,usually IM related, but often insulting my manhood, to that email address.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ghansson
      Originally Posted by N4PGW View Post

      ..but often insulting my manhood...
      Really? What's the world coming to ?
      And, are spammers really that stupid that they ruin a good IM email address with such crap?
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Connell
      Originally Posted by N4PGW View Post

      We have spammers selling WSOs. I had to start using disposible email addresses as my primary email for PP. Because I buy something and suddenly get bombarded by spam,usually IM related, but often insulting my manhood, to that email address.
      I've only just realised that I'm getting spam after buying a WSO and I also get spam insulting my manhood:confused:

      Karen
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  • Profile picture of the author melltonroper
    Spammers are everywhere, be watchful!
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    While I have no doubt that in a community as large as the Warrior Forum we have a few spammers (and a few PM's I've received are a testament to that) the fact is that this post is not really about that. It was obvious from the first reply that the OP put his e-mail address in his signature, leaving an open invitation to bots and scrapers to harvest his email address.

    There is no proof here that the spam he subsequently received actually came from Warrior Forum members. So really the post title is somewhat misleading.

    My question would be - if you didn't want to receive unsolicited email why did you put your email address in your signature? Isn't this like putting your phone number on a billboard and then complaining that you are receiving anonymous phone calls?

    :confused:

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  • Profile picture of the author mikelmraz
    you mean there are really spammers on the internet?!?! really?!?! is it true?!?!
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  • Profile picture of the author Wiz Khalifa
    Sometimes I just register a new email and don't do anything to it and I still get spam in my inbox as well. They have a way to reach you, watch out
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  • Profile picture of the author woodymcgrath
    Bots are constantly scraping the net for pieces of contact information. Your email is probably scraped from some XYZ site you submitted before.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMWinner
    Probably there are people who have seen or read your email that they sent some message to you. Base on your statement, you posted your email in your sig.
    When you posts or displays your email as your sig, you are presenting to the public that you want to them to send you some message or inquiries or something.
    As what fellow warriors have gave their ideas, change your sig and try not to display your email next time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    Good news.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trent Brownrigg
    Yep, as others have already said, if you post your live email address anywhere on the internet (including this forum) it will be scraped and spammed to death. Don't do it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Onora Oz
    I don't know why but people tend to forget that this is a public forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    The annoying ones are those which you unsubscribed to, and it says that you have unsubscribed, but you still get emails from them...
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    • Profile picture of the author Nanaswhimsy
      Originally Posted by schwarzes View Post

      The annoying ones are those which you unsubscribe to, and it says that you have unsubscribed, but you still get emails from them...
      Or three emails from them like instead of unsubscribing, they add you to another list over and over again!
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  • Profile picture of the author adamfdotnet
    Even worse, I woke up this morning to spam PM here on the forum. Looks like the person was banned, but that's annoying... :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author NicholasCollins
    Consider that email compromised and dump it or at least change it to something like Profitnicheblog (at) gmail d0t com or change it to an image.
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  • Profile picture of the author Online Bliss
    Great advice, Don. It takes a little time, but it's well worth it. It's good to use an image for email addresses in privacy policies and tos, too.
    Wow, that's something I need to implement soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author scottmanesis
    As it has already been mentioned a bunch of times the Warrior Forum has no control if site scrapers index emails from the site, even the people using the site scrapers have little control over where the info comes from. If you post it, they will come!

    Also it has been mentioned a few times and I thought I would just repeat it, the way you have your signature right now is pretty much a waste of time. What is the value to anyone sending you an email? At the very least use a premium email address, although that still would not be very effective, it at least proves you invested 10 bucks in your business rather than a free gmail. I use a gmail FOR spam and am pretty selective about who I give my real email addresses to.
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  • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
    That's quite funny though. You put yourself on risk by displaying your email, you can post here without showing it.
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  • Profile picture of the author wgempire
    yep u advertise your email address and you get spam, pretty simple.

    We need something similar to life lock for email addresses. All the spam blockers out there help but not 100%
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