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email address spammed before used
06-04-2008 7:38 PM
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I am less than impressed that spam appears to leak into email accounts from within PlusNet itself......
Re: email address spammed before used
06-04-2008 8:01 PM
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Spammers just generate zillions of email addresses and if it lands, it sticks.
Re: email address spammed before used
06-04-2008 8:19 PM
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I very much doubt that you received a random a spam email so soon after opening an account.
Re: email address spammed before used
06-04-2008 8:23 PM
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Whatever the reason, it's worth configuring the anti-spam settings in your email account to suit you.
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06-04-2008 8:29 PM
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I have 3 domains set with MX records completely under my control and only 1 of them receives spam as the email address was used in Webmail so it got passed to the spammers when PN database was hacked into.
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06-04-2008 8:44 PM
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Quote from: HPsauce Ah, I didn't know that.
It has actually happened twice!
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06-04-2008 11:23 PM
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07-04-2008 12:15 AM
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07-04-2008 8:21 AM
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Quote from: itsme May be worth asking Plusnet that the account name you have used is not one that have been used in the past.
I'm fairly certain that this isn't possible.
Re: email address spammed before used
07-04-2008 8:34 AM
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Quote from: Jameseh I'm fairly certain that this isn't possible.
It's not. Once a username has been used, even if the account is cancelled you will be unable to re-sign up for that username.
We can re-activate the username if you were the original account holder, but this didn't happen in this case.
Re: email address spammed before used
07-04-2008 9:13 AM
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This clearly isn't the case here. I know that the spam filter/settings have improved but couldn't GB be offered a change of username as an option? I know that PN don't like to go down this road but it does seem to be a special case.
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11-04-2008 4:46 PM
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Quote from: PJ I am not aware of the second event that Santiago refers to.
The second event was the webmail breach May 2007.
The previous security incident I was refering to was July 2006
Force 9 sent an email (in error) to 1,800 customers containing information relating to Force9 customer details.
The information sent was; Internal reference number, username, name, product name, subscription amount, Force9 email, alternative email, marketing preference and active status.
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