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Old 14-01-2018, 11:37 AM   #61
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Old 14-01-2018, 11:53 AM   #62
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I also just checked my mailwasher blacklist and it not there either which means I have never received spam from that source. It's still very intriguing why some members got it and others didn't.
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Old 14-01-2018, 12:36 PM   #63
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Shouldn't the Bot be generating OzLotto winning combinations instead?
Buying lotto tickets costs money; using a spambot to generate millions of possible email addresses, knowing the majority of emails then sent will be rejected as invalid addresses, costs the spammer virtually nothing.
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Old 14-01-2018, 12:49 PM   #64
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my email address is same here as every where else and not that hard really , I'm a yahoo mail user and get sh!te loads spam thru them , ive been here on the forums around 13+ years and I do go thru my spam before deleting as ive found they system to deem stuff I don't want marked as spam marking it as such from time to time so I still refilter the spam to check nothing got in there by mistake and ive never had a BarginsAU mail
so for now ill leave my tinfoil hat on the rack
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Old 14-01-2018, 02:21 PM   #65
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Buying lotto tickets costs money; using a spambot to generate millions of possible email addresses, knowing the majority of emails then sent will be rejected as invalid addresses, costs the spammer virtually nothing.
I know what you mean by that and sometimes I'll get a flood if random/generic names sent to my domain name at once but mentioning an exact website which I have an actual registration to is very specific. I have never been hit with <randomdomain>_com_au@<mydomain>.com or anything close.
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Old 14-01-2018, 04:45 PM   #66
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Just some further info from me:
Mine has no connection to yahoo.
My email alias is different to to fordforums_com.
I'm not a tapatalk user.
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Old 14-01-2018, 09:52 PM   #67
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My email is my work email, which is identified by my name. The name has nothing to do with any particular forums. It's very rare that I get any spam through my work email and fordforums is the only forum that runs through that email, due to how long I have been on this forum. All other forums run through my other accounts.
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Old 27-01-2018, 11:02 AM   #68
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I've been spammed by coles. Google emailed me and advised I upgrade my security, all that involved was confirming my current contact details and not 12 hours later, I've received 2 emails from coles. Never had them before, I suppose it could be a coincidence but I know someone who says there are NO coincidences
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Old 27-01-2018, 11:41 AM   #69
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I've been spammed by coles. Google emailed me and advised I upgrade my security, all that involved was confirming my current contact details and not 12 hours later, I've received 2 emails from coles. Never had them before, I suppose it could be a coincidence but I know someone who says there are NO coincidences
google like faceplant draw that much info from you working in the background its not funny their even worse than microspam
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unfortunately even apps on your phone or pc write EVERYTHING that you've had going on back to daddy n mommy
as seems basically facebash gazzoogle n others the like own most apps and scour ALL your info for what ever bolderdash excise they need it for and they have the rights to onforward the info at their needs too
talk bout an invasion of privacy and we invite them in
you know something isn't right when you open a radio app on your new phone these days and it says (if you read it before accepting) this app needs control of XXXX , but why when its just to play the radio
or when you want voice command , apparently its just for your voice algorithms , like I had that problem before ! and has nothing to do with accessing my contacts list
they track every thing we do now from us not the sites we visit
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rebuilding the zh fairlane with a clevo 400m 4v heads injected whipple blown with aode 4 speed trans to a 9" ....... we'll get there eventually

just remember don't be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the Ark...Professionals built the Titanic!

I have taken up meditation... at least it's better than sitting around doing nothing !!
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