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Strange test messages
13-11-2014 11:19 PM
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:57 AM
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Naturally they are not to be replied to and could just be backscatter which tend to die out after a few hours
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 7:57 AM
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I suspect it is an incorrectly configured spamming application which someone is using to try and send spam but doesn't know what they are doing .....
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 9:33 AM
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 10:15 AM
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You do wonder what the point is?
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 11:09 AM
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:24 PM
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I ask because most of these messages that I've received are being sent to mailboxes and redirects which were harvested when Plusnet email was hacked in 2007.
If you are more recent Plusnet sign-ups, then I wonder if Plusnet's email has been compromised again, which is a possibility with the direction this other current topic is heading - "Spam to plusnet-specific Email address"
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:32 PM
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Quote from: purleigh did you sign-up with Plusnet AFTER May 2007 ?
Well before...
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:35 PM
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:35 PM
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:46 PM
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Quote from: purleigh
I ask because most of these messages that I've received are being sent to mailboxes and redirects which were harvested when Plusnet email was hacked in 2007.
Mine haven't been coming from this hack, but mostly from the Adobe hack from October 2013 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24740873
I have different email addresses for each account I set up, so I know where the spam originated. I am also receiving {randomtext}@mydomain.co.uk spam emails too. I've never used that email address.
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:51 PM
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Quote from: minkey I am also receiving {randomtext}@mydomain.co.uk spam emails too. I've never used that email address.
Is that domain website, email, or DNS hosted on Plusnet servers or somewhere else ?
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 12:54 PM
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Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 1:02 PM
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Quote from: purleigh For those of you getting these "Test mesage nnnnnnx"s, did you sign-up with Plusnet AFTER May 2007 ?
I got one of these to my work e-mail, which is unconnected with plusnet in any way, shape or form.
Re: Strange test messages
14-11-2014 1:08 PM
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