gmail spam

[Bagpuss]

Hey Doggy, great name

[Beefy198]

Originally Posted by expat

So how did he get it? (Yes I could ask him but I assume he will say "you must have given it to one of our partner companies").

I always recommend to people to google their e-mail address once in a while - you'll be surprised where it pops up and it from this that spam programs harvest their details.

[EternalOptimist]

Originally Posted by Beefy198

I always recommend to people to google their e-mail address once in a while - you'll be surprised where it pops up and it from this that spam programs harvest their details.

hey great idea, i'm just off to try that

[EternalOptimist]

blooming heck - you were right.


now to do something about it...

[zeitghost]

Hurrah!

I seem to be anonymous...

So the stuff on my gmail must be random...

[Sysman]

Originally Posted by zeitghost

Hurrah!

I seem to be anonymous...

So the stuff on my gmail must be random...

I dug up a couple of entries, both on a website whose owner I know, so I can ask him to munge 'em.

Thanks for the tip Beefy.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Originally Posted by Beefy198

I always recommend to people to google their e-mail address once in a while - you'll be surprised where it pops up and it from this that spam programs harvest their details.

only 4 hits on my 2 email adresses - all places I know of - not so bad

[TheFaQQer]

Originally Posted by Sysman

Google don't seem to give sweet FA about that.

That's a double negative.

HTH.