are you getting spammed?

[DXCHASE]

Im suddenly recieving between 30-40 junk emails from bots replying to threads ive commented on. Is there any way to stop this ? I have turned off all notifications but i want to have them on so i can respond to legit questions/ answers to what im saying. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[Zloth]

I haven't noticed more spam than normal - though I don't have notifications turned on at all.

 

[mjs warlord]

DO NOT ... reply to bot spam , usually to unsubscribe , if you reply you will send an electronic signal back to the spammers that their machines have made contact with an email address that actually exists , then you get more.

Games companies tell us to keep our details secure but a lot of them break their own guidelines and sell our details on. How else would you explain that i get emails that start hello #user name or hello #game tag , and they are from companies i have never dealt with.

Try this , set up a new email address and DONT you use , now wait and see how quick it gets hit by spam machines. I did this to prove to wife i was not doing porn , within days it was full on bitcoin , viagra and F buddy invites. Before i deleted the email address that inbox was getting about 300 a day.

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

Outside of regular bots spamming fortnite-themes topics and links, I don't get anything else that would be "new". And luckily nothing on my private messages....for now. Notifications on for some stuff.

 

[mjs warlord]

In 2002 i got my first pc and knew nothing !
I updated all the pre-installed bloat ware , well no ! , they launched and updated themselves.
Whilst doing this i did a bit of surfing and a box come up say gator needs to update so you can continue.
I did not suspect anything because of all the other updates that were happening. I clicked it and my 30 minutes used pc got trashed.

The best spam advice i cant give is , you get an email you dont recognise , ask all users if the heading means anything and if they say no just mark it junk and delete it.

 

[UserName]

Yup just got 6 of them between 10:30pm and 6am today. Though it was only on 1 older thread that I was watching. It's specifically related to this forum - not your regular spam. Hopefully, the forum admins were able to patch this security hole.

Though it interesting to learn that 6 completely different independent females expressed their interest in having a conversation with me and all i had to do was click on a link.

 

[Dan]

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