Where are the moderators

[dori36]

This stinks!  Wonder if any of this is from the apple ipads that just came out recently....heard on the local news that there was a "security" issue with them and that people's emails were getting hacked into.  Scary stuff!  Technology-it's like a drug....you get hooked and can't get enough....but were perfectly fine without it.

Well, anything's possible but hacker/spammers have been hacking e.address books for a very long time.  They get into a person's address book, take it for their own (well, sort of ....it's more technical than that), then use those addresses to send out their own spam.  People open them because they have the return addresses of whoever got hacked and they trust the email will be ok.  Sometime just opening the email captures that recipient's addresses.  It's a virus, of sorts.  I'd run my virus software to see what might be in your computers and isolate it if possible.

 

[Jill]

Sorry was away all weekend, looks like it has been taken care of.  I will have to tighten the registration process.

Thanks appreciate it!

 

[Torch]

One other way your email ends up in the hands of spammers is the "if you don't forward this to ten friends" chain email. They get you to voluntarily give them your friends emails this way. Then they get the email back with hundreds of address.

 

[CAB]

me too SKF...alot of mine were for Canadian Viagra.  My mom thought it was hilarious at first and threatened to send some to my husband for Christmas.  At least it would be more useful than a tie! lol

I'm thinking we have been hacked thru here...I am a little twirked... :'(

  Gidget does Eric read SP?LOL.