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cheezyflier

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today i recieved an email from support@icarusgold.com.
in it was a link to a page trying to sell me viagra and similar chemical enhancements for men. :icon_lol:
anyone else get one?

i sent a letter to the "contact us" link on their web page, i'm curious to see what their response will be. this is what i sent:


dear sirs -
today i recieved an email at 11:32 am, from support@icarusgold.com.
it contained the following link: http://www.landseaskyco.com/catalog/documents/i.php?cid=1000
i see 3 possible scenarios.

1)you're trying to tell me something

2)you have diversified into markets other than simulation

3)you've been hacked and someone is spoofing your address.

on the off chance it's 1 or 2, please remove me from the mailing address. if it's #3, i hope you catch the buggers,
and punish them.
thank you

:icon_lol::applause:
 
Yeah, someone's spoofing their address. They just chose it at random from some list - which means that Icarus is getting spammed too, since they undoubtedly selected it from a spam list.

Unsubscribing from Icarus won't stop the spam. It's not coming from them. The spammers have your address, that's all that matters, and there's nothing you can do about it now.

In the future, if you get a new address, be careful where you let it out.
 
Also, the only thing you should ever do with spam, is ignore it.
Replying only adds to the internet choke - I read somewhere 90%+ of email is spam-related (which includes follow-ups).
I had a domain name high-jacked by a spamming outfit once, and had to put up with the most amazingly vitriolic emails from people who didn't realise I didn't have anything to do with it... :isadizzy:
 
I've been getting a rash of "undeliverable message" notices lately. I don't open em up because there is an attachment usually with these notices. That indicates to me that someone is trying to infect my puter.

I still apply the rules I established a long time ago .... "IF I do not recognize the email address or there is not anything in the subject line that I don't recognize ... DELETE IT! Do Not Read!"

I don't care if its someone offering me a million dollars, if I don't recognize the sender ... :pop4:

They can use the phone to contact me if its important ... Oh, they have to leave a message on the answering machine as I don't answer the phone either. :mixedsmi:
 
i sent a letter to the "contact us" link on their web page, i'm curious to see what their response will be.
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do you think i am spamming people? i have more interesting things to do ....it's normal having and running a server receiving daily attacks also with daily updates and it's pretty simple discovering an email address because many register without privacy on their email and also if you made all to preserve security there is always some stupids that search to create a damage...bytheway we weren't hacked or cancelled or something else happened to many flightsim website in the last month..so don't understand the necessity of this post and also posting our email address you are spamming too...

there also many program that send email with a masked email address and giving the impression come from our server but it's just masked with another one.
 
don't be upset. i never thought you were spamming me. my post here was intended as humor, and to let others know that someone out there was using your name. maybe you didn't notice the laughing smiley in my post?
i realize english isn't your primary language, but by reading the other posts, you should be able to tell that everyone else here understood my intent. just so no one can misunderstand my intentions, and to put you at ease, below i am posting the response you sent me the other day:

We have not been hacked they are just using a mask program with our domain but mail do not come from our server..there are programs that permit to send email with a masked domain address but our that compare is not the real unfortunately is not possible made something


Best regards

icarusgold


everyone here knows your work. no one here ever thought for a minute you were spamming people. i never intended that they would. i thought it was amusing that somehow, some spammer out there made the connection that i am interested in flight sim, and you produce flight sim products. that also is obvious in my email, to those here who read the post. why else would i have worded it the way i did? sorry if you got upset, but you misunderstood what you read.
 
cheezyflier said:
2)you have diversified into markets other than simulation



:icon_lol::applause:
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Flight stimulation, perhaps? :engel016:

What I do to cut down on spam mail is to have multiple e-mail accounts..
One for friends/family etc, another for business and a free e-mail for use when joining forums,making internet purchases etc. Works for me :)
 
what's actually pretty sad is, i think the the gigantic leap i am seeing in spam content comes from my recent job search. many of the jobs i have applied for have ended up being through "staffing agents".
of course i couldn't tell they were staffing agents until i show up for the interview and it turned out to be 3 people occupying a storefront on the other side of town. and it wasn't really an interview it was just so i could sit at their computer terminal and input my resume. i have been to 3 of those in the past couple of weeks. for the first one i rode the bus/subway for an hour and half, one way because i thought i was interviewing for a mechanical job.
i hate people who prey on job seekers. nothin like kickin somebody who's down. :173go1:
 
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