How do the Trolls get your emails.

[Skeet 028]

Don't know what to call 'em...but I got an email from a "company" that wants to help me get our student loans forgiven by our Illustrious Leader. Not only do they have my email they have my correct address. Like we still have student loans at our age...What little we had we paid off over 50 years ago....Oh and if I want to opt out and never hear from 'em again...just type in their URL and enter our email and the word...Remove...Yeah...Like the guy that signed me up for Russian Brides site

 

[fiasconva]

Have you bought any new items and registered them online lately? Seems like as soon as you do that the emails start coming.

 

[LVSteve]

It is almost at the point where many businesses won't deal with you if you won't give them and email and agree to them sharing your info. When I become your not-too-benign dictator, I'll get that fixed for y'all.

 

[lihpster]

With apologies to John Houseman, they do it the old-fashioned way. They buy it.

 

[s&wchad]

With apologies to John Houseman, they do it the old-fashioned way. They buy it.

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Virtually any business that collects your email address sells it.

It's the oldest profession in the world...

 

[Greyman50]

FWIW, get a duck duck go email address. They scan for scams and block many. When I have to give my phone number I write it so no one can read it.

 

[jughed440]

It is almost at the point where many businesses won't deal with you if you won't give them and email and agree to them sharing your info…..

…just like the nearby convenience store that refuses to sell tobacco or liquor to anyone who does not allow them to scan/copy their drivers licenses. Showing the birthdates on the DLs isn’t good enough. Sad that so many fools need their smokes and liquor that badly.

 

[Mule Packer]

It's the oldest profession in the world...

I thought the oldest profession in the world was farming. And the second oldest profession in the world was...uh...oh...never mind. Don't want to get dinged.

 

[coltle6920]

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Virtually any business that collects your email address sells it.

It's the oldest profession in the world...

Second oldest,Chad.......Second oldest.

Trust me when I say the oldest profession doesn't ask for your email address. They wont text you either asking you to fill out a survey.

 

[Kiwi cop]

I thought the oldest profession in the world was farming. And the second oldest profession in the world was...uh...oh...never mind. Don't want to get dinged.

Actually the oldest profession in the world is not what most people think.

It’s begging.

Someone had to ask if they could pay for it first.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Mule packer, You are right as usual, I agree.

 

[Skeet 028]

good grief...do ya even have to show Jose' down at the corner drugstore your ID too. I never had to show ID for my cigs anywhere...first time I had to show ID for liquor I was 31 and I pretty much quit drinking at the age of 20....Only place I ordered anything online lately was Amazon.......I did seriously have a friend sign me up for a Russian Brides site...took over 4 years to get permanently off it too. That's all right, though. I kept him up to date on Big Momma's with...errrrr...somethin or other site for a while

 

[A10]

…just like the nearby convenience store that refuses to sell tobacco or liquor to anyone who does not allow them to scan/copy their drivers licenses. Showing the birthdates on the DLs isn’t good enough. Sad that so many fools need their smokes and liquor that badly.

Cough syrup now too.

 

[CalifEd]

I have a "dead letter' email address that I use if-when I must. BTW, who buys Viagra over the internet?
Don't really monitor it, just look once in a while then delete the contents.
I have another email address, a real one, that I use for important things, friends and such.

 

[Model 19 6"]

Here in MI. the Trolls living under the Big Mac Bridge have scanners to get info!!!

 

[Pisgah]

The very fact that you have posted this online tells me that all of your info, from date of birth to blood type to the date you lost your virginity, is all online and for sale to anyone who wants it.

Welcome to the Brave New World...

 

[Skeet 028]

Not posting this to let the cat out of the bag...but this recently happened. I was prescribed a medication for prostatitis...The next day I was getting adds...for preparation H with lidocain. I was floored..my wife was laughing...the slut! I'll get even...maybe

 

[pasound]

I keep two emails. One is what I use to sign up with everything. The other is for my personal correspondence. First email is old, address spread over the 'net, and with the spam filters turned up, it dumps 500-600 emails per week. I used to subscribe to the NYT, and as soon as I dropped it and blocked their emails, my spam dropped by half (was pushing 1,000 a week). Second address might get 2-3 a week.

The most suspicious are the ones that show up as phony sales emails, with invoices, and warnings about security breaches. (re: Microsoft, Norton, McAfee, Amazon, ammo and parts retailers, even Coca-Cola and other products.) But the problem with these is that instead of the return (sender) address is either spoofed, or does not exist at all.

Anything with an attached file is a malicious file disguised as a pdf or doc. It's a jungle with many different camouflaged predators.

 

[old bear]

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Virtually any business that collects your email address sells it.

It's the oldest profession in the world...

No it's not but it is getting close..

 

[sjmjax]

Received a similar email.
Graduated college but that was 40 years ago and never had a student loan.

Started receiving many junk emails from new sources immediately after upgrading my phone and account at Verizon. I believe they or someone who works from them is responsible.