Suddenly lots of spam
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Evening all.
I use a 365 account for home / family and pay yearly for it.
It's on my Hotmail account I've had for many years (first name.lastname@hotmail.co UK) all of a sudden I'm getting 40+ emails of spam a day, most are "shipment notification" or credits for betting.
They are feeding into my junk folder but over the years I've never been bombarded like now, it's been a few weeks now, can't think of anything purchased dodgy and entered email address etc.
Is there anything I can do to stop it?
I use a 365 account for home / family and pay yearly for it.
It's on my Hotmail account I've had for many years (first name.lastname@hotmail.co UK) all of a sudden I'm getting 40+ emails of spam a day, most are "shipment notification" or credits for betting.
They are feeding into my junk folder but over the years I've never been bombarded like now, it's been a few weeks now, can't think of anything purchased dodgy and entered email address etc.
Is there anything I can do to stop it?
Doesn't help but I have a Hotmail.com email address and i'm getting the same, loads about Solar panels (I have never had the slightest interest in solar panels) and the other is claiming there are parcels awaiting me to authorise delivery, I keep labeling them Spam but I must get at least 2-3 of these emails a day currently.
I've had the email address for 20 years probably.
I've had the email address for 20 years probably.
Apologies for the dragging this thread up from the depths, but has anybody else who is a user of Pharmacy2U had spam emails which they suspect, but cannot prove, came from a scrape of Pharmacy2U's database?
I had suspected for some time that their database had been infiltrated, but was unable to prove it.
I have ditched my original BT Internet email address, and my primary email address is now iCloud. I have systematically changed any email addresses on sites that I had signed up to using Apple's "Hide My Email" system.
This morning, I have received a spam email on my icloud email account, addressed to the unique email address assigned to Pharmacy2U, thereby proving that their customer email addresses have been compromised. I'm going to email Pharmacy2U to let them know, not that I expect any action or response from them, and once again will change my email address on my account.
I had suspected for some time that their database had been infiltrated, but was unable to prove it.
I have ditched my original BT Internet email address, and my primary email address is now iCloud. I have systematically changed any email addresses on sites that I had signed up to using Apple's "Hide My Email" system.
This morning, I have received a spam email on my icloud email account, addressed to the unique email address assigned to Pharmacy2U, thereby proving that their customer email addresses have been compromised. I'm going to email Pharmacy2U to let them know, not that I expect any action or response from them, and once again will change my email address on my account.
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Dermot O'Logical said:
Apologies for the dragging this thread up from the depths, but has anybody else who is a user of Pharmacy2U had spam emails which they suspect, but cannot prove, came from a scrape of Pharmacy2U's database?
I had suspected for some time that their database had been infiltrated, but was unable to prove it.
I have ditched my original BT Internet email address, and my primary email address is now iCloud. I have systematically changed any email addresses on sites that I had signed up to using Apple's "Hide My Email" system.
This morning, I have received a spam email on my icloud email account, addressed to the unique email address assigned to Pharmacy2U, thereby proving that their customer email addresses have been compromised. I'm going to email Pharmacy2U to let them know, not that I expect any action or response from them, and once again will change my email address on my account.
Been using Pharmacy2U for 5 years - using a unique address at my own domain - and I have never received an email to that address from anyone else - I've probably now jinxed it and will start getting spam.I had suspected for some time that their database had been infiltrated, but was unable to prove it.
I have ditched my original BT Internet email address, and my primary email address is now iCloud. I have systematically changed any email addresses on sites that I had signed up to using Apple's "Hide My Email" system.
This morning, I have received a spam email on my icloud email account, addressed to the unique email address assigned to Pharmacy2U, thereby proving that their customer email addresses have been compromised. I'm going to email Pharmacy2U to let them know, not that I expect any action or response from them, and once again will change my email address on my account.
Worth remembering that a lot of websites force you to use an email as your 'username' when logging in, so if they get compromised not only does your password for that site get nicked (which you may have stupidly used on other sites too) but your email is also now on a dodgy list that nefarious types can buy quite cheaply.
Always worth setting up a separate address just for online use. Even free services often allow you to have multiple inboxes under the same account, with a different name for each. GMX are pretty good for this.
Always worth setting up a separate address just for online use. Even free services often allow you to have multiple inboxes under the same account, with a different name for each. GMX are pretty good for this.
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