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I received an e-mail today purportedly from my e-mail address with subject line <Need to loose a few pounds> but the message contents related to viagra. I assume someone who has my address is infected. Is there anything I can do to prevent the use of my address being used indiscriminately? No. Once it's been harvested by a spammer, it's available for resale to any other spammer in the world looking to increase market penetration. In fact, your IP address reveals that you are probably in the area of Burlington, Ontario so that they can tailor it to the appropriate postal code. Anonymity in the world today is really hard to achieve.  SignatureJim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express Please reply to newsgroup only. >I received an e-mail today purportedly from my e-mail address with > subject line <Need to loose a few pounds> but the message contents > related to viagra. > I assume someone who has my address is infected. Is there anything I > can do to prevent the use of my address being used indiscriminately? Thanks for responding, Jim. I hate to see my name and address being used like this, but I guess I'll just have to live with it. I use a munged address for the Newsgroups, so how in the world would you know I live in the Burlington area. Scary ! > No. Once it's been harvested by a spammer, it's available for resale to any > other spammer in the world looking to increase market penetration. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I assume someone who has my address is infected. Is there anything I > > can do to prevent the use of my address being used indiscriminately? It's just the times in which we live, Dan. Doesn't have to be scary at all if one is informed. If you really think about it, the situation depicted in this link is not too far off in the future (and indeed parts of it already exist today): http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 And your location was easy to figure out by looking at your IP address in your news post and then running it through this link: http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation Thanks for the feedback. SignatureJim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express Please reply to newsgroup only. > Thanks for responding, Jim. I hate to see my name and address being > used like this, but I guess I'll just have to live with it. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> > can do to prevent the use of my address being used > indiscriminately? That's amazing stuff, Jim. I agree, a lot of it is already here. With regards to the location, do I understand it correctly. That is, even if one munges an address, the recipient of an email can always identify who sent it ? > It's just the times in which we live, Dan. Doesn't have to be scary at all > if one is informed. If you really think about it, the situation depicted in [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >> > can do to prevent the use of my address being used > > indiscriminately? > That's amazing stuff, Jim. I agree, a lot of it is already here. > With regards to the location, do I understand it correctly. That is, > even if one munges an address, the recipient of an email can always > identify who sent it ? Unless one is proficient at "spoofing" IP addresses, which would imply a level of awareness of how the system works to a much greater degree than average. Changing or "munging" email addresses only prevents people from mailing to a known address; it does nothing to hide the IP address of the sender. And armed with that info (and is some cases a court order) the identity is a simple thing to find out. Your activity is recorded by your ISP in date time logs (which is why they usually require a court order to allow law enforcement to see them). It's sort of like the neighborhoods where I grew up a long time ago, when if I or any other youngsters in the neighborhood did anything "out of line," we could be assured that our Mom and Dad would know about it before we ever got home. It's just now that "Big Brother" is watching vs. that "nosy Mrs. O'Malley" down the street. <G> SignatureJim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express Please reply to newsgroup only. Thanks for the response, Jim I remember that nosy Mrs.O'Malley. Couldn't have any fun if she was in the window ! > > That's amazing stuff, Jim. I agree, a lot of it is already here. > > With regards to the location, do I understand it correctly. That is, [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > home. It's just now that "Big Brother" is watching vs. that "nosy Mrs. > O'Malley" down the street. <G> |
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