A few weeks ago I got some phone calls and emails about a quote I submitted online for moving to some small town in central California. The only problem is I never filled out that form. Since they had my yahoo email, I figured they might have hacked my yahoo account somehow and got my phone number from there. I changed my password and removed my phone number from the account but it was too late. Today I got emails and phone calls about auto insurance quotes. The emails I can ignore and once I answer the phone and explain the situation, the agents remove me from their list but I don't know if I want to put up with this every few weeks.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? and do I have any other recourse than changing my phone number?
posted by amapolaroja
on Apr 16, 2013 -
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My dad got a spam email with my (unusual) full name listed as the sender, but from a random email address with no association to my name. Was his contact list compromised or was mine?
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posted by amarynth
on Nov 23, 2012 -
7 answers
Getting spam through the contact form on my site - a lot of it seems to be text from posts on a public forum - what's the point of that?
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posted by dawkins_7
on Aug 21, 2012 -
7 answers
Does anyone remember a list of logins and passwords, for a myriad of sites, published online for all the world to use? Its advertised purpose was to allow one to use a website without having to register for access... so you didn't have to go through all the steps, nor receive spam in your inbox later... I think it's been several years since I've even thought of this -- also, I feel it had some form of 'gator' or other reptile in its name.
posted by Tandem Affinity
on Jan 9, 2012 -
9 answers
Spanish/Portuguese SMS spam or should I be worried someone is laying in the gutter somewhere?
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posted by 7life
on Nov 7, 2011 -
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Recently spam mail from (what appears to be) the same source keeps getting through my Gmail account. I've never had a problem with this in the past, and the current crop all seems to be roughly formatted in the same way. I've been marking everything I notice as it comes through, but is there anything else I can do?
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posted by codacorolla
on Nov 3, 2011 -
8 answers
Is a simple opt-out request generally unreasonable and/or inherently offensive, when the unsolicited Facebook message was sent by a family member?
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posted by christopherious
on Jan 9, 2011 -
23 answers
Google tells me that my domain is hosting a phishing scam. However, the URL they showed me includes directories that are not on my server. How do I fix this?
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posted by EL-O-ESS
on Dec 19, 2010 -
24 answers
I receive a couple of non-Gmail-filtered spam emails a day, from a friend's compromised machine/account. I can easily deal with them / filter them / discard them.
Besides hitting "Report Spam" I'm just wondering if there is a better place to report these consistent messages. I've been getting them for 6 months or so, doesn't seem the Big G's learning algorithm is ever gonna catch on...
posted by Exchequer
on Nov 30, 2010 -
9 answers
Regarding
this, would spanning multitask windows and or cut-n-paste be an effective foil to keyloggers?
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posted by notsnot
on Sep 13, 2010 -
8 answers
I sometimes see sketchy links that automatically post that you "like" them on Facebook when you click on them. How harmful are they, exactly? What can I do to prevent them from showing up?
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posted by Metroid Baby
on Jun 29, 2010 -
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Do these Spanish text messages I'm getting (which I have crudely translated for you) sound like a spammer fishing for valid numbers, or does it sound like a lovesick teen who has just gotten the wrong number? I want to tell them they've got the wrong number so they'll stop, but don't want to respond if it's a spammer. Language barrier and inexperience with text spam leave me unsure.
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posted by Askr
on May 3, 2010 -
5 answers
Help me make the most of spam! No, I don't want to send it. I want to receive it - and have some fun with it. And I need your help, especially if you know how to export bits of email.
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posted by 2oh1
on Jan 18, 2010 -
15 answers
How can I get off mailing lists for charities (and other non-profits) I never contacted in the first place?
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posted by ocherdraco
on Sep 3, 2009 -
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My blog is getting bombarded by a new kind of pingback spam. The pingbacks are produced by a WordPress plugin that appears to mine the web for links related to blog content, which then triggers a pingback notification. Can anyone help me identify the plugin, so I can possibly work to block the pingbacks?
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posted by arielmeadow
on Aug 20, 2009 -
2 answers
I have a website that has profiles of a lot of artists. At the moment I'm putting their email addresses on the site. But I don't want to be the cause of their receiving lots of spam emails. I found
this post, which didn't seem to answer this specific question. I also found
this post, which was a little confusing, and I'm not sure if I should just paste that entire code into the html editor of the wordpress post every time I want to put in a new email address.
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posted by omnigut
on Aug 18, 2009 -
9 answers
I have been getting weird Wordpress referrer spam the last 4 days, but there are no injections or anything of the like on my site.
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posted by tip120
on Aug 5, 2009 -
5 answers
A particular post on my (wordpress) blog just got hit with over 10 spam comments in 3 minutes. I've disabled comments on that post for now, but what's going on?
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posted by hibbersk
on Jul 6, 2009 -
5 answers
Help me figure out why yahoo is auto-delivering emails from my web server directly to any yahoo accounts bulk mail folder. No, I am not a spammer.
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posted by ChefQuix
on Feb 12, 2009 -
3 answers
My laptop's been infected by something that is interfering with all the usual solutions. Please help!
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posted by Rhaomi
on Jan 25, 2009 -
30 answers
I have a website with a feedback form script. Suddenly, over the past week, I've been getting a lot of weird, spam-like mail sent to me via this script. (It doesn't actually sell products--it just contains gibberish, of the sort that might be used to confuse spam filters.) I'm more worried that my feedback form is being used to spam other people. How can I figure out if this is the case? And either way, how can I stop abuse of my feedback form?
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posted by yankeefog
on Mar 15, 2006 -
11 answers
Phantom e-mail: I keep getting e-mail messages that don't appear to be from
anyone at all. No sender, no recipient, no subject.
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posted by emelenjr
on Oct 29, 2005 -
18 answers
Why are some spam messages predated, often by days and occasionally by years (I just deleted two that were supposedly from the year 2000)? I'm sure there's some technical means to send them that way, but what do they get out of it? How likely am I to see a penis enlargement offer that's hidden on page 66 of my inbox?
posted by languagehat
on Apr 25, 2004 -
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