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newyorkbusiness.com A few days ago, some computer somewhere in the world sent out a worm/virus/whatever. This email was sent to the address at the above site that you'd use to sign up for their newsletter, and the return address was forged as mine. This site, unlike any sane site that takes sign-ups via email, did not send me a confirmation email to make sure it really came from me, and not a worm/virus. So now I'm getting an unwanted email from them every day. And here's the idiotic part: The email contains an unsubscribe link. Clicking it takes me to a page where I have to log in. But I didn't sign up in the first place so I don't have a user/password. :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
Mike, if you did get into contact with the site owners, and that is what they told you, they might be lying... I have witnessed something similar happening to my mother (who never gives out her mail address, which is something you will not find in a dictionary). One company started sending her offers by e-mail and refused to cancel the subscription on the grounds of my mother "deliberately registering" and the two-weeks-return period having expired. My mother will not take something as stupid as that from ANYONE, so she got a lawyer. After a few letters and the lawyer threatening with legal action, the subscription was cancelled and my mother was informed that the contact information (e-mail) had been bought from a third party. What makes me think you are being fooled is that there is no "confirmation mail", no "your username and password" mail and no "password recovery" option. They want to you think that its not their fault and that you will have to live with it. Don't. Get a lawyer and have him send them a few threatening letters, as well as his bill. And tell them you will keep him hired as long as you receive mail from them. Or, do it the American way and sue the living sh*t out of them ;) j/k
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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Sounds to me more like they 'subscribed' a bunch of people so they can sell advertising.
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Exactly!
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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newyorkbusiness.com A few days ago, some computer somewhere in the world sent out a worm/virus/whatever. This email was sent to the address at the above site that you'd use to sign up for their newsletter, and the return address was forged as mine. This site, unlike any sane site that takes sign-ups via email, did not send me a confirmation email to make sure it really came from me, and not a worm/virus. So now I'm getting an unwanted email from them every day. And here's the idiotic part: The email contains an unsubscribe link. Clicking it takes me to a page where I have to log in. But I didn't sign up in the first place so I don't have a user/password. :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
When I encounter crap like that I sometimes do this, subscribe to: webmaster@newyorkbusiness.com Which I just did for you, so this one is on me mate :)
_____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life
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newyorkbusiness.com A few days ago, some computer somewhere in the world sent out a worm/virus/whatever. This email was sent to the address at the above site that you'd use to sign up for their newsletter, and the return address was forged as mine. This site, unlike any sane site that takes sign-ups via email, did not send me a confirmation email to make sure it really came from me, and not a worm/virus. So now I'm getting an unwanted email from them every day. And here's the idiotic part: The email contains an unsubscribe link. Clicking it takes me to a page where I have to log in. But I didn't sign up in the first place so I don't have a user/password. :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
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being unable to unsubscribe is, I think, illegal in Europe... go to their site, there's probably a contact link somewhere. Ask them to remove you from their database... :-)
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go to their site, there's probably a contact link somewhere. Ask them to remove you from their database...
No kidding, that's basicaly what we were doing with newsletter not so long ago. :wtf:
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newyorkbusiness.com A few days ago, some computer somewhere in the world sent out a worm/virus/whatever. This email was sent to the address at the above site that you'd use to sign up for their newsletter, and the return address was forged as mine. This site, unlike any sane site that takes sign-ups via email, did not send me a confirmation email to make sure it really came from me, and not a worm/virus. So now I'm getting an unwanted email from them every day. And here's the idiotic part: The email contains an unsubscribe link. Clicking it takes me to a page where I have to log in. But I didn't sign up in the first place so I don't have a user/password. :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
If you could do it for free, continually send a black page to their fax machine (212-210-0200).
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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newyorkbusiness.com A few days ago, some computer somewhere in the world sent out a worm/virus/whatever. This email was sent to the address at the above site that you'd use to sign up for their newsletter, and the return address was forged as mine. This site, unlike any sane site that takes sign-ups via email, did not send me a confirmation email to make sure it really came from me, and not a worm/virus. So now I'm getting an unwanted email from them every day. And here's the idiotic part: The email contains an unsubscribe link. Clicking it takes me to a page where I have to log in. But I didn't sign up in the first place so I don't have a user/password. :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
God loves idiots - obviously, or he wouldn't have made so many of them. Apparently he likes to have them employed in web-based businesses, too. I'm currently trying to transfer a website from one host to another. I set up the new one easily, then went to the old site to transfer the domain. It was locked. So I tried using the online tool provided - it requires a username and password. Guess what? My ID doesn't work, even though I was logged on to the site at the time. So I contacted the support site and explained what was going on. They sent me an email with instructions to... yup, go to the online tool and enter my username and password. We've been going in circles now for a week with no progress. Worse yet, they farmed out the domain registrar function to Tucows, and I've never had a user account there. So the only way to change the settings there is to go through the hosting provider's portal, and it doesn't respond to the same credentials I use to maintain the site. Idiots! (FYI - the idiot host is Readyhosting.com, who I've recommended for years. Not anymore...)
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When I encounter crap like that I sometimes do this, subscribe to: webmaster@newyorkbusiness.com Which I just did for you, so this one is on me mate :)
_____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life
mwahahaha!!! Revenge!
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
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newyorkbusiness.com A few days ago, some computer somewhere in the world sent out a worm/virus/whatever. This email was sent to the address at the above site that you'd use to sign up for their newsletter, and the return address was forged as mine. This site, unlike any sane site that takes sign-ups via email, did not send me a confirmation email to make sure it really came from me, and not a worm/virus. So now I'm getting an unwanted email from them every day. And here's the idiotic part: The email contains an unsubscribe link. Clicking it takes me to a page where I have to log in. But I didn't sign up in the first place so I don't have a user/password. :sigh:
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
I have the same problem with Sys-con media, I started getting newsletters about java and coldfusion and all sorts of stuff I have no interest in. I never signed up for it, I'm quite scrupulous about that but it was a legit company so I did the unsubscribe thing. Fast forward 3 years later I'm still getting them after repeated attempts, threats, reports to a real time blackhole list you name it. The only thing that stopped them is that I now run my own mail server so I banned their domain.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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I have the same problem with Sys-con media, I started getting newsletters about java and coldfusion and all sorts of stuff I have no interest in. I never signed up for it, I'm quite scrupulous about that but it was a legit company so I did the unsubscribe thing. Fast forward 3 years later I'm still getting them after repeated attempts, threats, reports to a real time blackhole list you name it. The only thing that stopped them is that I now run my own mail server so I banned their domain.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Sys-con got me too, but I haven't seen much from them lately. At one point I checked my email from my cell phone just because I could. In my inbox was one of their spam’s, so I deleted it from my phone, but when I sent a text message a day later (which I rarely do), there was a bunch of sys-con HTML markup appended to my text message. Maybe their spam caused a buffer overflow on my phone, planted spyware/virus, or something, but it was weird. I couldn't repro the event. Needless to say that made me even less of a fan of whatever it is that they do.