Is my email Being sold?

JohnD · 05-31-2002, 11:05 PM

I have been geting allot of Junk mail for list mailing things. One even wanted me to get my, well.. you know what enlarged.

Oxford · 05-31-2002, 11:27 PM

That's an increasing problem in Missouri/KS, too. In MO a "No Call" law has been in effect for unsolicited phone calls for about two years and it's caused my junk phone calls to almost completely stop. We were getting several junk calls daily.

Now we need to find a legal way to stop junk or unsolicited e-mail from landing on our computers. There are spam filters and other ways to eliminate certain kinds of unwanted mail but too often this eliminates forwarded messages from friends, too.

I suspect cookie preferences have something to do with some of the junk mail and other mail is blind mailed according to demographic statistics.

Oxford

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Doglips · 05-31-2002, 11:34 PM

I get some off the wall e-mails...even found some program "Bonzi Buddy" has placed its self on my hard drive. At work we get "junk" faxes .... several big companies specialize in sending out sales flyers..letter via fax to people..like junk mail but it come by fax...a few companies sued them but lost to make them stop.

Oxford · 05-31-2002, 11:57 PM

On the perimeter of the fax received will be the senders fax number. Before I retired, I used to return the unwanted faxes back to the original senders with a nasty note.

Don't know if it helped but at least I felt better and it used up a little of their computer time and gave them a little static.

Oxford:

:nod:

BattleRifleG3 · 06-01-2002, 12:10 AM

I got the ultimate revenge on the junk mailers...

When asked to fill out the E-mails of crushes on someonelikesyou.com, I put in the junk e-mail sender addresses.

Sure, only young goofy guys like me would even waste their time on that, but hey, I got the last laugh.

SPOCAHP ANAR · 06-01-2002, 07:13 AM

I go t an unlisted number and reduced my unwanted calls by 99.9%. Occasionally we will get someone who is using a block calling method and I give them a reason to wish that I was a pastor.

Doglips · 06-01-2002, 08:57 AM

Every now and then I get fax revenge on unsoliceted faxes....Use Word to print in landscape.. STOP FAXING ME in a font size of 60+ take the 4 pages and tape them togeher in a circle (Once loaded in the fax first) and send it to the junk mail sender....let it run about 30 min....sends them about 120+ pages....once got tied up and forgot about it for a few hours and send recipt message said that over 1000 pages were sent/recived. As for junk mail I had office depot make me a Decessed..return to sender rubber stamp...gets me off a lot of list.. Telephone people dont call much..Im such a jerk when they do Im sure Im off their list.

NRAJOE · 06-01-2002, 02:53 PM

P.C. WORLD SAYS IF YOU GET OFF THE WALL E-MAILS-PORNO,ETC DO NOT CLICK THE UNSUBSCRIBE PART. JUST IGNORE IT AND DELETE. SOMETIMES THEIR COMPUTER SPITS OUT RANDOM E-MAILS USING EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IN EVERY WAY IT CAN. IF YOU UNSUBSCRIBE THEY WILL NOT SEND YOU ANYTHING AGAIN BUT THEY KNOW IT IS AN ACTIVE E-MAIL AND WILL SELL IT!

Chris · 06-01-2002, 05:30 PM

No email, no names, no phone number, no fax numbers, no IP address, no nothing has been sold! The only people that can even think about getting to them is Jesse and myself. And if we did that, it is against our Privacy Policy.

But porno sites, free email providers certainly do sell your email address.

NRAJOE · 06-01-2002, 05:54 PM

I hope you didn't think I meant you guys Chris , when I said their computer I meant the offending e-mailers. I know you guys would never do that!

Chris · 06-01-2002, 05:58 PM

For sure, I just wanted to ease everyones worries, if they think that we did.

JohnD · 06-01-2002, 08:57 PM

Ok. Thanks for the responce. If you get allot of people calling you and trying to sell you stuff just mess with there minds. Look on the internet for ideas, it can be quite funny.

colt45 · 06-02-2002, 09:30 PM

1. Tella marketers: let them talk, it is wasting thier time and keeping them from calling someone eles, it also cost them more $ per call, then when they are done and want your info tell them" I'm sorry this isn't a good time for me. why don't you give me your home phone number and I'll call you back when its good for me." they usualy hang up then.

2. Faxes: I send them back to them in the largest font my fax will allow (38) it takes about 20 min. on thier end to finish it. only one was ever repeated and that wasn't a third time. No nasty note needed.

EMAILS: IF SOMEBODY KNOWS HOW TO GET RID OF THEM TELL ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EVERY TIME I CLICK THE UNSUBCRIBE LINKS ON THESE THINGS I GET TWENTY MORE. MY BLOCK LIST (500) IS ALREADY FULL.

NRAJOE · 06-02-2002, 11:44 PM

As i put in the previous post,never hit the unsubscribe! That just lets them know thats an active e-mail address and they will sell it. Just block them for awhile and ignore them,they will go away in time.

Despoiler · 06-03-2002, 01:20 AM

I have no idea about the email. But I do know that unsolicited (SP?) faxes are illegal. The courts have ruled that companies whom send you an unsolicited fax can be fined up to $500.00 per fax. If you get a unsolicited fax you can make some money, enough to get a new toy.

http://troubleshooter.com/data/columns/junkfaxes.htm

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Klaus · 06-03-2002, 06:35 AM

The WORST thing you can do is reply to unsolicited email. You are only confirming it is a good address. In many states, spammers do not even have to honor an unsubscribe request and just pass your address to someone else. At my work addy, I often get spam from casinos and "psychics". I do not know how they got the email address.

NRAJOE · 06-03-2002, 03:12 PM

Quit looking at those naughty sites at work and maybe ya won't get those e-mails! lol...

taras · 06-03-2002, 03:20 PM

someone mentioned "bonzi buddy" being downloaded. This what was put on my computer as well. I couldn't get rid of it myself, and had to take my computer to the shop. Cost $160.00 to get it cleaned and re-programmed. Someone should be responsible fro these costs.

05-31-2002, 11:05 PM	#1
JohnD Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: No where Posts: 181	Is my email Being sold? I have been geting allot of Junk mail for list mailing things. One even wanted me to get my, well.. you know what enlarged.

05-31-2002, 11:27 PM	#2
Oxford Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gladstone, Missouri Posts: 13,022 Blog Entries: 4	There's too much junk e-mail That's an increasing problem in Missouri/KS, too. In MO a "No Call" law has been in effect for unsolicited phone calls for about two years and it's caused my junk phone calls to almost completely stop. We were getting several junk calls daily. Now we need to find a legal way to stop junk or unsolicited e-mail from landing on our computers. There are spam filters and other ways to eliminate certain kinds of unwanted mail but too often this eliminates forwarded messages from friends, too. I suspect cookie preferences have something to do with some of the junk mail and other mail is blind mailed according to demographic statistics. Oxford :target: __________________ "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right".

05-31-2002, 11:57 PM	#4
Oxford Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gladstone, Missouri Posts: 13,022 Blog Entries: 4	Fax it back to them On the perimeter of the fax received will be the senders fax number. Before I retired, I used to return the unwanted faxes back to the original senders with a nasty note. Don't know if it helped but at least I felt better and it used up a little of their computer time and gave them a little static. Oxford: :nod: __________________ "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right".

06-01-2002, 12:10 AM	#5
BattleRifleG3 Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Western PA Posts: 11,401 Images: 13	I got the ultimate revenge on the junk mailers... When asked to fill out the E-mails of crushes on someonelikesyou.com, I put in the junk e-mail sender addresses. Sure, only young goofy guys like me would even waste their time on that, but hey, I got the last laugh. __________________ Trust is earned, not... GIVEN away. - Worf

06-01-2002, 07:13 AM	#6
SPOCAHP ANAR Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: SC-upstate Posts: 4,089 Images: 3 Blog Entries: 4	No junk calls here I go t an unlisted number and reduced my unwanted calls by 99.9%. Occasionally we will get someone who is using a block calling method and I give them a reason to wish that I was a pastor. __________________ Spocrest Out!..........

05-31-2002, 11:34 PM	#3
Doglips Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Cocoa Florida Posts: 9,089	I get some off the wall e-mails...even found some program "Bonzi Buddy" has placed its self on my hard drive. At work we get "junk" faxes .... several big companies specialize in sending out sales flyers..letter via fax to people..like junk mail but it come by fax...a few companies sued them but lost to make them stop.

06-01-2002, 08:57 AM	#7
Doglips Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Cocoa Florida Posts: 9,089	Every now and then I get fax revenge on unsoliceted faxes....Use Word to print in landscape.. STOP FAXING ME in a font size of 60+ take the 4 pages and tape them togeher in a circle (Once loaded in the fax first) and send it to the junk mail sender....let it run about 30 min....sends them about 120+ pages....once got tied up and forgot about it for a few hours and send recipt message said that over 1000 pages were sent/recived. As for junk mail I had office depot make me a Decessed..return to sender rubber stamp...gets me off a lot of list.. Telephone people dont call much..Im such a jerk when they do Im sure Im off their list.

06-01-2002, 02:53 PM	#8
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,043 Images: 3	P.C. WORLD SAYS IF YOU GET OFF THE WALL E-MAILS-PORNO,ETC DO NOT CLICK THE UNSUBSCRIBE PART. JUST IGNORE IT AND DELETE. SOMETIMES THEIR COMPUTER SPITS OUT RANDOM E-MAILS USING EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET IN EVERY WAY IT CAN. IF YOU UNSUBSCRIBE THEY WILL NOT SEND YOU ANYTHING AGAIN BUT THEY KNOW IT IS AN ACTIVE E-MAIL AND WILL SELL IT! __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

06-01-2002, 05:30 PM	#9
Chris HMFIC Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,834,165 Images: 19 Blog Entries: 18	No email, no names, no phone number, no fax numbers, no IP address, no nothing has been sold! The only people that can even think about getting to them is Jesse and myself. And if we did that, it is against our Privacy Policy. But porno sites, free email providers certainly do sell your email address. __________________ Rules \| Contributing Members No one has the right to deny my personal safety Please be descriptive in your thread titles!

06-01-2002, 05:54 PM	#10
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,043 Images: 3	I hope you didn't think I meant you guys Chris , when I said their computer I meant the offending e-mailers. I know you guys would never do that! __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

06-01-2002, 05:58 PM	#11
Chris HMFIC Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,834,165 Images: 19 Blog Entries: 18	For sure, I just wanted to ease everyones worries, if they think that we did. __________________ Rules \| Contributing Members No one has the right to deny my personal safety Please be descriptive in your thread titles!

06-01-2002, 08:57 PM	#12
JohnD Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: No where Posts: 181	Ok. Thanks for the responce. If you get allot of people calling you and trying to sell you stuff just mess with there minds. Look on the internet for ideas, it can be quite funny.

06-02-2002, 09:30 PM	#13
colt45 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Occupied Territories of New York (Buffalo) Posts: 2,898	1. Tella marketers: let them talk, it is wasting thier time and keeping them from calling someone eles, it also cost them more $ per call, then when they are done and want your info tell them" I'm sorry this isn't a good time for me. why don't you give me your home phone number and I'll call you back when its good for me." they usualy hang up then. 2. Faxes: I send them back to them in the largest font my fax will allow (38) it takes about 20 min. on thier end to finish it. only one was ever repeated and that wasn't a third time. No nasty note needed. EMAILS: IF SOMEBODY KNOWS HOW TO GET RID OF THEM TELL ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERY TIME I CLICK THE UNSUBCRIBE LINKS ON THESE THINGS I GET TWENTY MORE. MY BLOCK LIST (500) IS ALREADY FULL. __________________ "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" -Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis "If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective." - Ted Nugent "Self-defense is Nature's eldest law." -John Dryden

06-02-2002, 11:44 PM	#14
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,043 Images: 3	As i put in the previous post,never hit the unsubscribe! That just lets them know thats an active e-mail address and they will sell it. Just block them for awhile and ignore them,they will go away in time. __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

06-03-2002, 01:20 AM	#15
Despoiler Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Occupied Territory of California Posts: 2,232	I have no idea about the email. But I do know that unsolicited (SP?) faxes are illegal. The courts have ruled that companies whom send you an unsolicited fax can be fined up to $500.00 per fax. If you get a unsolicited fax you can make some money, enough to get a new toy. http://troubleshooter.com/data/columns/junkfaxes.htm :target: Last edited by Despoiler; 06-03-2002 at 01:23 AM.

06-03-2002, 06:35 AM	#16
Klaus Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Cypress, Texas Posts: 2,383	The WORST thing you can do is reply to unsolicited email. You are only confirming it is a good address. In many states, spammers do not even have to honor an unsubscribe request and just pass your address to someone else. At my work addy, I often get spam from casinos and "psychics". I do not know how they got the email address. __________________ "Gee, Wally, Eddie Haskel's mom puts out!"

06-03-2002, 03:12 PM	#17
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,043 Images: 3	Quit looking at those naughty sites at work and maybe ya won't get those e-mails! lol... __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

06-03-2002, 03:20 PM	#18
taras Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Apt.402-24 Carlton st. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. R3C 1P1 Posts: 403	someone mentioned "bonzi buddy" being downloaded. This what was put on my computer as well. I couldn't get rid of it myself, and had to take my computer to the shop. Cost $160.00 to get it cleaned and re-programmed. Someone should be responsible fro these costs. __________________ If ya don't vote, don't ***** !!!