:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Friday, March 07, 2003 ::

spam must die
{{music from Jet Li movie plays}} "Romeo Must Die..."

Not really... just spam and the people that send it.

Someone's using my Juno address to send spam. They put it as the reply to address and are sending out spam through a version of Outlook Express. If you get anything for Certified Natural HGH Hormone Replacement Therapy that looks like it's from me, it's not.

The major problem with this is that the bounced mails are filling up *my* inbox. I have to weed through at least 10 of these mails a day. I've forwarded every single one to Juno's spam abuse service. I've also found the web address that this person is accepting orders at. I e-mailed them and their service provider's spam abuse service. I'm also going to send a letter to Certified Natural. I've also changed my password and disabled remote access, just in case they're remotely hacking my account. Now, I can only access the account from this computer, but that's okay. I rarely checked it on the go anyway.

I'm just tired of receiving these e-mails. Juno hasn't done anything, and I've been sending them these e-mails for months to show them that it's not me sending them out. They know it's not me, but it's frustrating the heck out of me that they're saying they've contacted people about it, yet I'm still getting these bounced mails for something I never sent.

On top of that, there's people that have my other e-mail address that all have viruses. I keep getting notifications through my Norton and through Optimum that people from various addresses (addresses I don't recognize, by the way...) are sending me viruses there. I don't know who got *that* address. I never use that one to sign up for stuff. I try to keep it restricted to friends and certain things so that I don't get the spam problem I'm now having with my Juno address.

That was one of the reasons I changed all my personal e-mails to the Optimum account.

I still check Juno (obviously, since I'm complaining about spam I didn't send out), and that's usually the address I put on my webpages and stuff... Anywhere someone selling something would go to find spam victims. I sign up for stuff using the Juno account just in case someone decides to get smart and sell it to someone else for a little extra cash. That e-mail is so inundated with spam, I don't care anymore. That's where I send all that kind of stuff. The stuff I really want, like friends' e-mails, those all go to Optimum.