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Think what you wish. I respectfully (and humbly) disagree.
Then if you got it from her and three others then as already stated it's likely a site with many of us on it has either been hacked or they offered or sold all of our contact info. Then a computer will spoof the email of te sender like it's coming from another one of us with the hopes you'd trust it come from someone you recognize or know. This is the same type of thing you get when you get fishing emails from companies you have accounts. It's supose to make you think it's came from a trusted source so you give up actual useful info or worse. this is super common type of fishing or spam. This sure could have happened to a person here, but many of us have gotten theses emails which means this person would have to had us all in their address book and have gotten fished. It's been posted that several of these are coming from people that have never exchanged emails so it's more likely this is our emails all being sold or given away by a forum or site we all belong too.
Nope not yahoo accounts. I just did some digging and Gerryppg is not even a member here so its not this forum, also I do not believe Diane (color your world) is a member at digitsmith so not that forum. In the header there is tons of industry related people it was carbon copied to. So it is obvious a forums emails has been harvested. Unless some of our industry members have decided to start selling prescriptions.
Jason my email is not Yahoo it is our own domain? Thing is some of these emails are using accounts I never recieved emails from in thepast, for instance gerryppg. Never have me and him passed emails so it is weird that he is one of the ones I am getting them from.On another note about 2 months ago I got an onslaught of spam from some xsocial BS all made it to the spam folder but it seemed like a weird coincidence since it happened at about the same time someone threatened me with internet warfare.
Someone got a virus. The virus is spamming all of you via email spoofing. It looks like it came from a person but it's actually not. The sender of the message is forged. Read this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on July 26, 2011, 11:45:26 PMThen if you got it from her and three others then as already stated it's likely a site with many of us on it has either been hacked or they offered or sold all of our contact info. Then a computer will spoof the email of te sender like it's coming from another one of us with the hopes you'd trust it come from someone you recognize or know. This is the same type of thing you get when you get fishing emails from companies you have accounts. It's supose to make you think it's came from a trusted source so you give up actual useful info or worse. this is super common type of fishing or spam. This sure could have happened to a person here, but many of us have gotten theses emails which means this person would have to had us all in their address book and have gotten fished. It's been posted that several of these are coming from people that have never exchanged emails so it's more likely this is our emails all being sold or given away by a forum or site we all belong too.The idea that this talked about activity is from phishing, sold or given emails, or spoofing.
Then please explain in detail how several screen printers are getting forged/spoofed emails from other screen printers that they actually didn't send? The emails have came from some where, did someone just get lucky and guess all of the email addresses to send these emails to? Do you even know how email works? Have you ever set up a email server, and I am not talking about you creating a yahoo account or something, have you built, installed, and maintained a email server of ANY size? Please tell us your qualifications in this area.Phishing to one extent or another is exactly how these addresses end up in the wild. Either a person was phished/got a virus, a site was phished, or a email list was sold, and frankly maybe all 3. Once any of those happen to one person it takes about 10 seconds for one of those things to be sent all over the damn place so once it happens "our" addresses are all out there. Why is it you think spam never really stops? You can filter it all you like, its not going to stop, you just can hope to contain it. So you are trying to say this Diane person is the total cause of this? Your saying Inkman and her exchange emails? He got emails from several people. Did he get one from Diane? Inkman are you in Diane's email list? Inkman you also got one from me, and you know my computer is not only locked down but you know its not sending spam. Clearly spoofed email. So is my email in Dianes email list too? I don't recall ever talking to this Diane person. Anyway I don't think you understand that probably everyone here every day receives a spoofed email from a computer (not even a real person most of the time), and its in attempts to get them to either get a virus, or go to a site, or to get more mail addresses to rise and repeat. Kudos to inkbrigade, maybe some people will read up on this, reposting for you:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing
It was a link to some Canadian pharmaceutical online order place for like viagra