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Hey all, I too use te MSFN@... email convention and have been receiving spam. I also started receiving it from Konfabulator at the same time, so for anyone investigating, you may want to get with Konfabulator forum people to see what they say. I am posting a reply to one of their announcement messages in regards to this issue.

Thx

Sean

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There was a security exploit in IPB v2.1.6 known only to small group of hackers. We found some indications that IPB was compromised in a malicious way. Unfortunately, we do not know how much information was compromised. As of this time, we know that members who were registered as of July 12, 2006 had their addresses harvested by the compromise. Please change your e-mail address and password to ensure your security.

MSFN has existed for more then five years and has never solicited or leaked any member information to anyone.

We apologize for any inconvience.

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Victim too I think. :(

Here is a typical mail for me :

De: xymenes@loveable.com Ternov 
À: camara01recope@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:29:11 +0200
Objet: re:your resume

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<head></head>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff>
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Employers guarantee payroll tax deposits and reporting, retirement and various reports,<br>
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If you are interested in this proposal send us your resume ASAP and employer will contact you. <br>
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Best regards, <br>
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</body>

And camara01recope@gmail.com is not my correct address : the real one is pratty obvious, all you have to know is that gmails doesn't accept underscores.

Hopefully the spam I receive always starts the same way and the sendto address too. I should be able to filter that out. :}

I check my Spam box in gmail and there are 5 spams in it : 22 July, 21 July, 21 July, 20 July and 20 July.

I am wondering how much do other peoples get per day ?

Also, every time I get a spam in gmail, I use the "report as spam" button. I don't know how efficient it is, but anyway I do it. Does anybody else does the same ?

This was to say : if this spam is caused, indirectly, by msfn, as far as I'm concerned, it is still a minor annoyance (if not an annoyance anymore)

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If you posted copies of spam containing links to the spammers' web sites, please edit your post(s) and remove them (the links). It makes no sense to promote the spammers web sites for them.

In addition, it would help if you would report the spam as soon as you get it. Go to spamcop.net and open a free account. But don't bother reporting any spam that is more than two days old, as it will be rejected.

Reporting the spam will make it harder for the spam to get through because the IP addresses that it is being sent from will be put on a blacklist. It will also let the ISPs know that there are customers on their networks with compromised computers-- you will be helping the unfortunate people whose computers have been infested and hijacked by these parasites.

Phil

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i kept getting some spam, but i dont think it was from MSFN. so all i did was block the email it used to send to me and i havent gotten anything in the past few days now.

heres the email address i kept getting mail from: ****@madrid.com where * was a different thing everyday.

i just blocked the @madrid.com thing in Outlook Express, and it just deletes anything like that from the server.

i also changed my msfn password, but im not getting a new email just for this lol. it doesnt bother me as much.

in no way would i blame MSFN for this. it was an accident, stuff happens. so , ill just deal with it in my own way.

thanks msfn for at least ackknowledging it. i give you a lot of credit for that :)

regards, cygnus

i found a copy of the mail i was deleivered. this is also from a different email address now too, weird... ill be blocking this domain too.

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In addition, it would help if you would report the spam as soon as you get it. Go to spamcop.net and open a free account. But don't bother reporting any spam that is more than two days old, as it will be rejected.

Reporting the spam will make it harder for the spam to get through because the IP addresses that it is being sent from will be put on a blacklist. It will also let the ISPs know that there are customers on their networks with compromised computers-- you will be helping the unfortunate people whose computers have been infested and hijacked by these parasites.

Phil

Thanks. Will be added to announcement.

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Well,

Something I learnt after this, is not to use my primary email address for registering on public forums. I was wondering about the best practice.

Wether to use a separate email address for each forum Or to use One email address for all the public forums we register on.

IMO, one email address should do it for all the forums. Any suggestions?

And again i believe and agree with @Cygnus, that this kind of stuff happens, and MSFN is not to be blamed for anything related to this. Also :thumbup thumbs up for MSFN to acknowledge it.

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