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Did anyone else get this e-mail
Hi all,
Just got a rambling e-mail with the heading “PLEASE RESPOND” I think offering me $10,000,000 (nothing new there) but something I did notice was the number of e-mail addresses in the Cc: area that had the word signs in them and a lot with .uk.
Made me wonder if maybe the members addresses had been leaked somehow.Just Curious. 😕
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In the last week I’ve won about 10 lotteries, inherited $10,000000 about 8 times and had Lebanese President’s wives asking me to launder money for them. Someone has recently got hold of a list of signmakers’ e-mail addresses, because I’ve heard others mention an influx of this stuff recently.
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There was also that virus awhile back that kinda cloned and used the email addys in yer address book.
Plain and simple:
If you don’t know the sender, just delete it unopened.
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Yes I got that one! no details in the cc .
Some bloke in Lagos Nigeria
Regards
Barry
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I don’t mind too much getting them, it was kinda funny at first. I just delete them.
I just thought Rob may have a security problem he might not be aware of as a lot of the addresses I can tie in with names and businesses I know from UKSB. -
I received one today with Please Respond heading today too but just deleted it. My worry was that it went straight to my in box and not into junk.
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thanks for the heads up mate, all details given when registering here are very secure, i am the “only” person with access to these details.
stuff like this happening in the past is the reason we do not have profile access on uksb. -
I’ve never received emails like that until this week Frog Man.
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Same here Marek, I’ve never had any emails like this until this week when I’ve had about a dozen!
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Same ones As I have been getting, is it coincidence, or out of all the people on the boards a percentage will get the same junk?
I have a theory, but cant disclose it publicly, as it would be impossible to prove where the mailing list originated.
Peter
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If Other people are getting the same, please add to this thread.
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Still got the thing if you want to see it?
Barry
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Yes, had about 20 this week 😕
Only just started in the last couple of weeks 👿
Nick
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Mine only started in the last couple of weeks too.
Rob, is there a way I can send you a copy of the addresses that were on the Cc list so you can compare to what’s on your records ?
There are probably a hundred or so and as I said earlier they seem to tie in with a lot of people using UKSB.
Might not be anything to do with UKSB but if the list matches it could point to a security issue.I’m off to sleep now but will check for a reply in the morning.
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yes that would be good mate… if you can send me the addresses and a copy of the emails content to support@uksignboards.com
thank you
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Started getting the same after registering on a Link.
not only the lottery but all sorts of junk.
Cant say if that’s where it started but its the only place I left details. -
The way this has started out the blue, adding the (carbon copy) scenario, i am really starting to wonder. i could be wrong, but when have you ever had a virus/worm type email that sends the carbon copy list too? 😉
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I have had loads this last week …. fluffing pain in the rear ….. lottery winner, inheritance, confirm bank details here, assistance required …. loads!!!
😀
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I also got a couple from HSBC last week, with subject title relating to “my account”. I don’t have an account though, so just deleted emails without reading them. Has anyone else received these?
Dawn
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had that one and similar from several “banks” and paypal…
of course I sent them my account numbers and passwords 😀Peter
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I’m sure that all this is too much of a coincidence.
Did you open them Peter? Did they have cc list?
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yes Dawn I have, only in about the last 3 or 4 days though I’ve had the bank ones the lotto ones help me get zillons out of some far flung country, but I don’t think it’s only us on here, we have a local radio consumer programme and the amount of people who have phoned in this week with the same one’s is incredable, all our mail comes through a mail washer so nothing gets on the computor anyway, needless to say it all gets deleted.
i don’t know if is a virus or just people trying to get hapless peoples account details, cause most have these have aked for that. 🙄Lynn
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Never open or recieve anything that is not known to me I delete them from the server.
Peter
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ahhhhh
this weeks been email wind up weeki must have had at least 20 (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:) (:)
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I get junk but not won the lottery or seen anything like that.
My sign’s related email address in recent 3 months are getting spammed, not sure how or why though.
Mine are:-
Doctor at The Ultimate Online Pharamceutical (this get everywhere)
and broken emails like “co mimit news” or “baptisma l news” from Saranna Koelling and Zinovia Goldsberry.Lynn Talbot Welcome tomatrix
mainly start off with 4 paragraphs with -Sensattional revolution in meedicine!My other email non-sign related… gets about 50 a day and I am supposed to be spam filtered.
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every email account gets spam, comes with the territory of the net.
viruses, worms, whatever… they exist and do the rounds from time to time….
what you dont get is a carbon copy email list with any of the above.
i maybe jumping to conclusions here…
but i think we maybe getting targeted! this happened in the past… so why not again?
the ones that come in with the CC emails are certainly targeted “in my view” but we can waite and see once i have a look at the list.if that same person with the CC email list from uksb decided to copy and paste that same list to spamming type sites. in turn we all end up with the same junk, at the same time, causing us all grief.
those are just posibilities of course.
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yep ive been getting them too, dont normally have bother 😀
nik
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yeh ive been getting loads lately as well ….someone on there sick bed in south africa wanting me to get in touch with there solicitor so that he can give me her bank details….a round about road to get my bank details i suspect 😕
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Ive had loads too.A leak maybe?
Damn, thought I had 30 mill stashed in Lagos for a rainy day.
If you want a good laugh, go to this link. http://www.419eater.com/
It is a real scream how the perps can be so easily conned themselves. very Entertaining.
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We’ve been getting them too – about a dozen of them over the past week.
Don’t normally have any problems.
Brian
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Yep I have been getting them since 3rd March, and they originate from a server called de.kunderserver (or something like that). Right click the email, go to properties and it will say where the email is coming from, interesting to see if they all come from there.
Dave.com.com.com
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I’ve been getting the pharmacuitical ones for a while now. Also some that seem to somehow have read who I am and who I e-mail. In other words I get e-mails addressed to Simon or some other familiar name. Weird.
Cheers.
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I get them only on the e-mail address registered here. I also know that some former, or at least inactive, members have been getting them.
I did a yahoo search for my e-mail address and found one match which was a site called Hilton……something. Anyway, it was a page of text consisting of signmakers e-mail addresses. Weird.
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Yes my email addy is on that list ….. I also noticed a lot of familiar ones from here too. Looks like you hit the nail on the head with that find Andy 😕
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I’ve been getting them too FM but only on my admin email account, not any others (I have 14 email addresses) or any other non sign related web sites (I have 4) so don’t know what to make of it.
Only started about a month ago.
Just checked that link Andy, my address is there too, and lots of others I recognise from here. Interestingly, one address I saw on there from a non active member I know, is not longer valid by a fair few months. Must be an old list but I think it is pretty well certain there has been a breach at sometime.
I am only on this site, and I did register with another, so it could be them I suppose, although I don’t think my non active member friend has joined the other one either.
Also, admin@uksignboards is there, and I’m not sure that rob would have joined the other site under that alias?
Edit: I have just remembered, the address listed on this site is one I have only just changed to a couple of months back. So that may narrow it down. Have not had any disgruntled staff leave just recently have you Rob? 😕
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quote Andy Gorman:I get them only on the e-mail address registered here. I also know that some former, or at least inactive, members have been getting them.
I did a yahoo search for my e-mail address and found one match which was a site called Hilton……something. Anyway, it was a page of text consisting of signmakers e-mail addresses. Weird.
Link .com/
Now, every man and his dog can copy the link
Andy, or if a mods about can you remove?
Peter
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I’ve copied the file and saved it as a txt file Peter. There are some many names, I saved it in wordpad and searched for my address that way, I’m about half way down..
Shane
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Sorry 😳
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done a quick check after someone send me a pm regarding this. (thanks :wink:)
the list sent i “think” is a few hundred addresses… however, “most” dont match our email list, lots are bogus as we have run a check and the results are showing broken, bogus or no longer in use accounts. the only ones we can see to match are those that “i” recognise?
even at that some of those are very old ones, from people i havent seen on the site for ages. yet i spotted a few new ones too!
our email list consists of about 6000 names, so if security had been breached i would recon they would have taken the lot. my personal opinion here is that someone from the boards, past or present, has a fair amount our emails, combined with a lot of their own & has been submitted to a string of spamming sources.i also have a few things i am in the process of following up, which could get me a result on this. ill keep you posted. 😀
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Hi
Yes, I got the PLEASE RESPOND email with loads of others, -
And still they come 😕 about 6 today 🙁
Nick.
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3 more this morning!!
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i’ve had a bout 9 over the weekend.
I was just saying to danny that i have never received any junk mails like this before, until last week when they started coming in a bout 3 a day. not logged in for a couple of days and saw this post!
Kate
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WOW I just got the offer of $10,000,000 again.
Now it’s just a matter of, sit back and wait for my $20,000,000.
I can hardly wait !
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I,ve been getting loads also…but only on the pc’s I use for UKSB.
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I’ve just recently started getting all the types mentioned.
Never got them before
Chris
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quote paul meadows:I,ve been getting loads also…but only on the pc’s I use for UKSB.
by that you mean your email accounts mate. if you check email from any pc, you checking the same email account?
ive taken about 7 addresses now and added them to norton antispam and bt anti spam and it has stopped. (i hope) this being the case it maybe the same half dozen addresses or so sending the spam…
if someone like hotmail was sending the spam it continues regardless of which you block. it just shifts, same emails, different sender.heres hoping it all stops soon, i keep getting my hopes up every time i win the lottery 😳 :lol1: :lol1:
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11 emails this morning :lol1: 10 spam 😥 I’ve tried blocking sender but they seem to keep coming.
John
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I’ve received a few mails like that during last week but since friday it seems it just slowed down, i tried to find the link mentioned but it’s giving me an error message, plz can someone that saved the list check if my mail is in the same list? Just wondering as some mentioned they continued to receive it trought the weekend but i didn’t, just wondering if there is any possibility that there are more of those lists?
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Just remembered that my registration mail is now diferent from my name on the boards but some of the members might remember it or find it trought a search on the boards with my name and find some signatures with my old nickname.
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Good point that Rob…I’ll just try and get me head round that one, getting old and can’t get to grips with technology anymore! too many chemical substances as a youth! 🙁
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Lately i have been getting allot of spam mails to my company mailbox, and it has been “clean” for ages.
The address they was delivered to is _newer_ used any other place than in my registration/profile here. 😕Stian
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this thread is now locked.
please contact me at admin@uksignboards.com should anyone have any questions or new findings that i can use to help resolve this issue.
thank you…
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