Well last night around 3 am I was on my phone and did some survey... which I usually dont do, and entered my email. It took me to one of those spammy medicine sites, and I exited before it loaded, and exited out of every thing after that. I checked my email to make sure nothing was hurt, and it was okay, so I went to sleep
And today, I have recieved spam. Two sent at 4:12am and 5:15 am. The other was sent around a half hour ago, and were things like "Your samples from Dove, Febreeze, Huggies are ready" and something about a 100$ wendy's gift card. I did NOT open any of these and just deleted them, no activity was recorded from unknown locations on my account and I changed the password. What can I do to stop these?
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A very Smart, Strong and very Annoying one of a kind, Nyanja. If you dont know what that is, please contact my cousin, Nyan cat.
Yeah.. It was late at night and I was being stupid and tired so I wasnt thinking straight. I havent seen any more spam mail since this post, and im hoping it will be fixable.
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A very Smart, Strong and very Annoying one of a kind, Nyanja. If you dont know what that is, please contact my cousin, Nyan cat.
Well now your email is being sold to marketers. Nothing to do really, either change email, or keep black listing spam mail.
What are they after really? I mean I know your accounts and stuff but honestly I only use my email for games and I had sent myself a message from my mom's email before but really nothing valuable.
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A very Smart, Strong and very Annoying one of a kind, Nyanja. If you dont know what that is, please contact my cousin, Nyan cat.
Knowing an live personal email is a good marketing/advertisement goal. It is an form of Data Farming. Same way randoms get your phone number and spam you there (IE Marketing calls).
Knowing an live personal email is a good marketing/advertisement goal. It is an form of Data Farming. Same way randoms get your phone number and spam you there (IE Marketing calls).
Ah, so basically my email would be used for spamming other emails and spamming me?
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A very Smart, Strong and very Annoying one of a kind, Nyanja. If you dont know what that is, please contact my cousin, Nyan cat.
Ah, so basically my email would be used for spamming other emails and spamming me?
Not at all.
Spam is just Junk Mail, in the same sense as flyers in normal mail. Junk mail senders purchase huge lists of Addresses or bought them from other companies, like magazines.
E-mail is a million times more "lucrative" because the cost is practically nil to send E-mail to tens of thousands of addresses, whereas with junk mail, it costs money to create the mail itself. With junk mail it might require say 100 people out of every 2000 to convert to sales (conversion rate) in order to stay in the black; with E-mail spam, it can be as low as one Address within every million becoming a sale to make it lucrative.
Well I found something, after two more emails I decided to check this out more and using gmail's filter thing, I found it an email adress for a Walmart gift card thing, and the adress was walmart @ paytec . com (Spaces in there so it doesnt make a link or anything) Well, at least I think it was paytec. Googling paytec . com will be the first link, and im sort of scared to go on the site. Any information on this?
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A very Smart, Strong and very Annoying one of a kind, Nyanja. If you dont know what that is, please contact my cousin, Nyan cat.
And today, I have recieved spam. Two sent at 4:12am and 5:15 am. The other was sent around a half hour ago, and were things like "Your samples from Dove, Febreeze, Huggies are ready" and something about a 100$ wendy's gift card. I did NOT open any of these and just deleted them, no activity was recorded from unknown locations on my account and I changed the password. What can I do to stop these?
Mini Nova.
You can't stop it, you'll have to live with it now.
Whatever email service/program you use should be able to filter it out.
Well now your email is being sold to marketers. Nothing to do really, either change email, or keep black listing spam mail.
Mini Nova.
What are they after really? I mean I know your accounts and stuff but honestly I only use my email for games and I had sent myself a message from my mom's email before but really nothing valuable.
Mini Nova.
Ah, so basically my email would be used for spamming other emails and spamming me?
Mini Nova.
They hope if they spam you enough, you will buy their products.
It's more about tricking the uniformed into either buying fake stuff or phishing for personal details. Or both!
Case in point, my email junk folder:
Most of them are trying to sell stuff, the last one is a phishing email.
Not at all.
Spam is just Junk Mail, in the same sense as flyers in normal mail. Junk mail senders purchase huge lists of Addresses or bought them from other companies, like magazines.
E-mail is a million times more "lucrative" because the cost is practically nil to send E-mail to tens of thousands of addresses, whereas with junk mail, it costs money to create the mail itself. With junk mail it might require say 100 people out of every 2000 to convert to sales (conversion rate) in order to stay in the black; with E-mail spam, it can be as low as one Address within every million becoming a sale to make it lucrative.
- C.C.
Mini Nova.