Something is up with emails!

[inkman996]

I just got spammed by three different users all at once. Spam was sent under their email contact, Color Your world, Gerry Welch, and Stitches I believe is the third. Something is telling my one of these forums has had the email accounts hacked or harvested. Is anyone else getting these?

[dburgessjr]

Yeah, I just received one from a member as well.

[ebscreen]

It's Yahoo accounts and yes I have received a bunch over the past week. Yahoo changed their
email format to be "safer" (they've always had problems with their accounts being hacked) but
apparently it didn't work.

I know of no fix other than deleting the account. Stupid yahoo.

[inkman996]

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.

[inkman996]

Now I got one from Brandt at graphic disorder, has two suspicious attachments oh boy there is trouble on the horizon.

[GraphicDisorder]

Now I got one from Brandt at graphic disorder, has two suspicious attachments oh boy there is trouble on the horizon.

I have sent nobody anything like that so I can tell you thats gotta be bunk. 

[ebscreen]

You can use Yahoo with a vanity domain.

[inkman996]

Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.

[GraphicDisorder]

Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.

Well you haven't actually, you've got emails that appear that way, but actually sent from a different persons email than displaying.

[jason-23]

I have also gotten spammed, I have been spammed before in the past and the fix is to change your password on your yahoo account to 13 character with letters, numbers and symbols like this !Password12$?

[blue moon]

huh, this is pretty simple. Somebody in the industry had their account hacked or contact list harvested somehow. No matter what you do now, your email is their system and they will keep spamming you. Changing the passwords or anything else, short of changing your email address, will not help.

use good spam filtering email program and you will be OK.

pierre

[inkman996]

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.

[GraphicDisorder]

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 in the screen print world either sold our address or has been hacked and has all of our addresses in their addy book.  Simple as that.  Either way spam filter will solve it.

[jason-23]

for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......

[Sbrem]

I got one from Diane too, with no message, which is how I suspected spam.