Recently, people have been receiving emails that seem harmless, but they are actually spam.
PLEASE HIDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES. Next to "Always show my email address" when editting your profile, select "No". I have noticed a few members who have selected "Yes" instead, but I wanted to notify them to change it themselves than doing it for them myself. You need to try hide your email address from those spammers.
SPAM Email
- Wai
- Administrator
- Posts: 2892
- Joined: 01 Nov 2004, 14:12
- Gender: Male
- Hermit crabs: 2
- Total gallons: 45
- Total tanks: 1
- Location: Victoria, Australia
- Contact:
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- Zoea I
- Posts: 110
- Joined: 01 Mar 2005, 07:10
- Location: Colorado, USA
- Contact:
- Wai
- Administrator
- Posts: 2892
- Joined: 01 Nov 2004, 14:12
- Gender: Male
- Hermit crabs: 2
- Total gallons: 45
- Total tanks: 1
- Location: Victoria, Australia
- Contact:
What this does is when people in public view your profile, the field 'Email:' will be left blank.
There is an option with Yahoo! Mail where you can create disposable addresses. You then just use the disposable address in public. If it is someone you know or someone you trust not to be a spammer who sent you the email, you can give them your real address. Otherwise if it is a spammer, you can just delete the email they sent you. If your disposable address becomes 'clogged' by spam emails everyday, you can just delete it and make another disposable address in public. Also by doing this, the people you know will just contact you with your real email address (which you will not delete).
There is an option with Yahoo! Mail where you can create disposable addresses. You then just use the disposable address in public. If it is someone you know or someone you trust not to be a spammer who sent you the email, you can give them your real address. Otherwise if it is a spammer, you can just delete the email they sent you. If your disposable address becomes 'clogged' by spam emails everyday, you can just delete it and make another disposable address in public. Also by doing this, the people you know will just contact you with your real email address (which you will not delete).
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- Zoea I
- Posts: 110
- Joined: 01 Mar 2005, 07:10
- Location: Colorado, USA
- Contact:
- Wai
- Administrator
- Posts: 2892
- Joined: 01 Nov 2004, 14:12
- Gender: Male
- Hermit crabs: 2
- Total gallons: 45
- Total tanks: 1
- Location: Victoria, Australia
- Contact:
Here's a helpful link about filtering out spam:
http://www.paulgraham.com/wfks.html
Never open any email that looks like spam. If you need help, please post the Subject of the email message here (don't open it though, we don't need to know what it says in the body), and we will try help identifying it for you. If it is spam, go ahead and delete it.
It will also help if you choose to block all images from your email. Spammers have started adding invisible (or simply visible) images in emails that report back to the spam source that your email address is active when that image is loaded on your computer. If you really need to see images on your safe email only, turn the image settings on again, but turn it back off when you're finished.
http://www.paulgraham.com/wfks.html
Never open any email that looks like spam. If you need help, please post the Subject of the email message here (don't open it though, we don't need to know what it says in the body), and we will try help identifying it for you. If it is spam, go ahead and delete it.
It will also help if you choose to block all images from your email. Spammers have started adding invisible (or simply visible) images in emails that report back to the spam source that your email address is active when that image is loaded on your computer. If you really need to see images on your safe email only, turn the image settings on again, but turn it back off when you're finished.
- hermiesrokmysox
- Megalopa
- Posts: 968
- Joined: 16 Nov 2005, 13:08
- Hermit crabs: 7
- Location: OH
thank you!!
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- Wai
- Administrator
- Posts: 2892
- Joined: 01 Nov 2004, 14:12
- Gender: Male
- Hermit crabs: 2
- Total gallons: 45
- Total tanks: 1
- Location: Victoria, Australia
- Contact:
My email address is getting more and more spam as time passes. Most importantly, DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS FROM SPAM. Once you do that I cannot save you. If you disable all HTML from your email, it should be safe to open the message (without downloading the attachments of course, if there are any). Filters help remove most of your spam, but some will get through.