How do they get our emails

[lauram]

Again this am another 14 emails sent from the same person
Congratulations! ([email protected]) join partycasino now get a 100% match. I already have a account with them so this person doesnt know that but how did they get hold of my email, wondering if there is a way to set up our emails with the casinos to see where these people are finding us from. the other one that i get many of is make 2400 today for gold gate and they arrive with private email addys also. Is it just me or do others get this also

 

[anniemac]

Eveyone gets this crap if you have signed up at a casino that sells your info. I have changed some of my casino email addresses to gmail and guess what, no spam. So that tells me that one of the casinos I have an account with, not the ones I changed to gmail, have given my email address out to a spammer.

Just change to gmail and only give it out to the ones you really like. If spam comes in then you will know where it came from.

 

[Jasminebed]

Spam solicitations

It is not always a casino that sells your information. I recently posted a comment on a news article at yahoo, and a mail account I have had for years with almost no spam was "harvested". Get rich quick schemes suggest that spammers do just that to obtain "live" addresses, and then suggest you can sell these lists to other spammers.

Used to be that it cost direct mail advertisers the price of postage to contact you.

 

[anniemac]

Absolutely correct, Jasminebed. But I was just addressing the casino issue. Lord knows, don't sign up for anything on the internet that tells you you have won something cause the next thing you know, everybody in cyberspace has your email address.

I can't tell you how many lotteries I have won or how many orphans want me to adopt them so they can collect their daddy's millions. It is absolutely amazing!!

 

[dirtydealin]

I got the same crap...

Just woke up to find all these in my inbox this morning, OK I get it! PC has a 100% bonus offer, hey dumbass I used to have an account there, I live in the USA, I can't play there. Please die as soon as possible.



Congratulations! PartyCasino with 100% Bonus‏ 6:09 AM 2 KB
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DD

 

[steinhaug]

Theese are nice! I especially love all the special offers for american citizens, especially since I live in Norway and can't do anything with theese offers!

The mere fact is, spewing out 10.000.000 email cost's typically nothing. It's volume! So until we get theese spammers capped or something, we need to improove spam filters. That's the only thing that accually works!

Infact I pay the same for spam filters each month that for my internet connection, LOL.

 

[winbig]

Theese are nice! I especially love all the special offers for american citizens, especially since I live in Norway and can't do anything with theese offers!

The mere fact is, spewing out 10.000.000 email cost's typically nothing. It's volume! So until we get theese spammers capped or something, we need to improove spam filters. That's the only thing that accually works!

Infact I pay the same for spam filters each month that for my internet connection, LOL.

The problem with spam filters is that spammers can get around them 99% of the time....and that 1% accounts for millions still getting through.

Simple text filters are easy to get around, and impossible to keep up with spammers while trying not to block legitimate emails.

The only true filtering solution is IP based; but with thousands of mis-configured/hacked email servers out there, it's impossible to stop all spam at an IP level.

The only way you're never going to get spam is to use a service that requires the person sending you email to "confirm" that they're a real person sending the email...the only problem with that is more than likely you'll stop receiving promo emails from casinos that you want to come through.

One way to help keep a clean mailbox and know if a casino is selling your information is to create a new email address with such places as Gmail before you sign up for a casino, and use that address solely for mail to/from them.