Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
Jeff Chan wrote: > George Breahna wrote: > > Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that > > I use ONLY with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > In it I have receivedSPAM! > > > Is Go Daddy selling our e-mails to the lowest of the lowest ? > > Does your address appear in a domain registration? The > registrations are public after all. I am sure that is what you are seeing. Look at the whois data on your account. On my machine I use the whois command. whois top-consulting.net I will avoid posting your address again here. But it matches the one you just posted. This is public information and hard to avoid. If you whois me you get my information too. I get a lot of spam solely because of the whois information. I even get paper mail spam to that address that I know is only due to that listing. So this is not just an electronic problem. Bob
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 2:52:45 PM, George Breahna wrote: > Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I use ONLY > with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In it I have receivedSPAM! > Is Go Daddy selling our e-mails to the lowest of the lowest ? Does your address appear in a domain registration? The registrations are public after all. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
George Breahna wrote: Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I use ONLY with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In it I have receivedSPAM! Is Go Daddy selling our e-mails to the lowest of the lowest ? Guys..beware! Here's what I got: OEM What is it? OEM stands for "Original Eguipment Manufacturer." lt primarily refers to name-brand software that comes WlTHOUT the box or Owner's Manual. Why do you care? You can purchase OEM (even Microsoft and Adobe) and other name-brand software ,for unbeIievably low prices -- often much lower than from the oriqinaI manufacturer . Need in exampIe? $30 Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 -- Not so expensive as BOX versions... Check out OEM today at the followinq link Have you tried contacting the godaddy people? Seems their privacy policy says they don't share: http://documents.secureserver.net/show/document.aspx?plvid=1&name=privacy_sa if they have been hacked, then you'd be lucky that the only thing the people who broken in got were an e-mail address (i'd be watching CC statements...) -- Thanks, JamesDR smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
--On Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:22 PM -0700 Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, I checked two servers I admin (one with two domains and roughly 8000 messages over the last seven days, one with about 30 domains and roughly 34000 messages over the last seven days), and I didn't see any messages in my maillogs addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's anecdotal, to be sure, but given that a dictionary attack seems like one of the less-likely scenarios. Now that it's been mentioned here, no doubt the spammers will start using company names early in their dictionary attacks. So I'd recommend salting any such addresses.
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
4) dictionary attack FWIW, I checked two servers I admin (one with two domains and roughly 8000 messages over the last seven days, one with about 30 domains and roughly 34000 messages over the last seven days), and I didn't see any messages in my maillogs addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's anecdotal, to be sure, but given that a dictionary attack seems like one of the less-likely scenarios.
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
George Breahna wrote: >Aside from the Dictionary Attack idea, I don't know what to think. > > > As best I can think, these are all the possibilities: 1) godaddy is selling address lists 2) godaddy got hacked and had it's address list stolen (this is popular sport nowadays) 3) your machine became infected with a virus at some point which reported your whole address book back to it's master. (backdoor, proxy relays, keyloggers, and address mining operations are popular in viruses) 3b) if you've ever forwarded a message with said address to someone else, ie: your purchasing dept or other IT staff it could be their machine not yours. 4) dictionary attack
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
George Breahna wrote: > Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I > use ONLY with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I receive occasional spam to my e-mail used only for whois with Network Solutions, i wouldn't accuse them of selling my addy but I would think it's due to a spammer checking whois for targets. Who really knows ;)
RE: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
Aside from the Dictionary Attack idea, I don't know what to think. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 65404 invoked by uid 89); 11 May 2005 19:45:01 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 65401 invoked by uid 1010); 11 May 2005 19:45:01 - Received: from 80.41.53.139 by cust02.top-consulting.net (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, uid 89) Received: from unknown (HELO mailmedford.com) (80.41.53.139) by cust02.top-consulting.net with SMTP; 11 May 2005 19:44:55 - Received-SPF: none (cust02.top-consulting.net: domain at mindspring.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: from root by mailmedford.com with local (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DSUx7-000FCZ-A1 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:58:45 + Subject: * What IS OEM software and why do you care? From: "Olive Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed -Original Message- From: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:57 AM To: George Breahna; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ? Post the headers. How do you know it isn't spoofed? - Original Message - From: "George Breahna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Godaddy selling e-mails ? | | Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I use ONLY | with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | In it I have receivedSPAM! | | Is Go Daddy selling our e-mails to the lowest of the lowest ? | | Guys..beware! | | | Here's what I got: | | OEM | | What is it? OEM stands for "Original Eguipment Manufacturer." lt primarily | refers to name-brand software that comes WlTHOUT the box or Owner's Manual. | | Why do you care? You can purchase OEM (even Microsoft and Adobe) and other | name-brand software ,for unbeIievably low prices -- often much lower than | from the oriqinaI manufacturer . | | Need in exampIe? $30 Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 -- Not so expensive as BOX | versions... | | Check out OEM today at the followinq link | |
RE: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
No it does not. The Contact E-mails listed under the whois are from an old account of mine. This e-mail was only used at godaddy so they can send me my login/password. -Original Message- From: Tuc at Beach House [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:57 AM To: George Breahna Subject: Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ? > > > Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I > use ONLY with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does said email address show up in the WHOIS for the domain? Tuc
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
George Breahna wrote: >Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I use ONLY >with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >In it I have receivedSPAM! > > That's hardly a unique email address. Are you sure it wasn't a dictionary attack result?
Re: Godaddy selling e-mails ?
Post the headers. How do you know it isn't spoofed? - Original Message - From: "George Breahna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Godaddy selling e-mails ? | | Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I use ONLY | with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | In it I have receivedSPAM! | | Is Go Daddy selling our e-mails to the lowest of the lowest ? | | Guys..beware! | | | Here's what I got: | | OEM | | What is it? OEM stands for "Original Eguipment Manufacturer." lt primarily | refers to name-brand software that comes WlTHOUT the box or Owner's Manual. | | Why do you care? You can purchase OEM (even Microsoft and Adobe) and other | name-brand software ,for unbeIievably low prices -- often much lower than | from the oriqinaI manufacturer . | | Need in exampIe? $30 Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 -- Not so expensive as BOX | versions... | | Check out OEM today at the followinq link | |
Godaddy selling e-mails ?
Not sure why this is happening but I just received an e-mail that I use ONLY with go daddy. The e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In it I have receivedSPAM! Is Go Daddy selling our e-mails to the lowest of the lowest ? Guys..beware! Here's what I got: OEM What is it? OEM stands for "Original Eguipment Manufacturer." lt primarily refers to name-brand software that comes WlTHOUT the box or Owner's Manual. Why do you care? You can purchase OEM (even Microsoft and Adobe) and other name-brand software ,for unbeIievably low prices -- often much lower than from the oriqinaI manufacturer . Need in exampIe? $30 Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 -- Not so expensive as BOX versions... Check out OEM today at the followinq link
