Playak database being used for SPAM email

Playak database being used for SPAM email 17 years 3 months ago #20238

ion_berkley
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I just received this choice SPAM addressed to an email address unique only to playak and not publicly visible. It suggests the playak database has been misappropriated.
-ian

NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY
HEADQUARTERS
SHIP HOUSE MARINA-EAST
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
From the desk of:
DR. ABBA MUHAMMAD
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE .( NPA)

HELLO,

URGENT INVESTMENT PROPOSAL

Although this proposal might come to you as a surprise,
since is from someone you do not know or have seen before,
but based on recommendations, I gathered from a very
reliable source here in Nigeria . I am the director, fund ......
.....you get the idea

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Re:Playak database being used for SPAM email 17 years 3 months ago #20239

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please send me a pm with the email address of the spammer. the addresses are not passed on to any thrid parties by me, and they are not visible (although you could choose to have them in/visible in the old playak system, with was in use until 2005).

the only way people can send mail to that address is by filling out a -send e-mail' form through your profile, and they must be registered to do that. but even then, they won't see your address.

anyway, if that's what happened, i'll ban the user who did it immediately.

If you're happy, you're successful.

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Re:Playak database being used for SPAM email 17 years 3 months ago #20241

AdrianTregoning Offline Moderator Posts: 2212 Thank you received: 8	These guys will get your e-mail address no matter what. It probably has nothing to do with Playak, IMO. There are always mails for viagra, steriods, helping some dude in Nigeria get his money out that he has but cannot get to because of a long sob story etc.
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Re:Playak database being used for SPAM email 17 years 3 months ago #20246

ion_berkley Topic Author Offline New Member Posts: 2 Thank you received: 0	Adrian, I use an email system that tracks each individual user of my email system so I can pinpoint such problems, and if necessary selectively block them. in this case it came from playak with 100% certainty and I'll help Jeroen try to work out how its happening. -ian
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Re:Playak database being used for SPAM email 17 years 3 months ago #20247

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ion_berkley wrote:

Adrian, I use an email system that tracks each individual user of my email system so I can pinpoint such problems, and if necessary selectively block them. in this case it came from playak with 100% certainty and I'll help Jeroen try to work out how its happening.
-ian

Ion: Like I said, it probably has nothing to do with Playak, IMO. That means, in my opinion. I'm an engineer and know nothing about the intricacies of e-mail/internet etc. :grin:

Hence the grin too. But thank you for pointing that out. Perhaps you should have contacted Jeroen direct and not made a public announcement which invites discussion, and more importantly, opinion ;-)