OLF Emails compromised?

[jcorey]

So, I was perusing my spam folder on GMail today, and noticed a series of spams with the same style subjects, one popular one was "Max-Gentleman*Enlargement*Pills." I flip through them and notice something peculiar. When I register for all these billions of web sites, I use unique addresses so I can filter and know when they've been sold off to spammers.

Surprise! This very account's unique address was what they were addressed to. So, either the email list was sold off voluntarily, or it was compromised and sold off just the same.

...just when I was starting to enjoy it here, too. So, heads up to everyone.

[Ed]

Wow, I don't know what to make of this. I certainly didn't sell anything off. I checked with others and they haven't experience this issue with spam, and neither have I. The servers are securely on rackspace cloud. We did have a minor hacking incident about 1 year ago, but as far as I know the DB wasn't compromised.
Eddie

[Ed]

jcorey, please forward the spam message to me at ed[at]onlivefans.com
Eddie
(ed@onlivefans.com)

[TransmetaNiven]

It's probably random robot spam, there are tons of apps that generate billions of addresses and just list the ones that don't get an undeliverable error.

[Delinus]

It's probably random robot spam, there are tons of apps that generate billions of addresses and just list the ones that don't get an undeliverable error.

While this is true in some cases, I wouldn't dismiss his concern...I have a yahoo i use for signups/websites and it gets drowned in spam sauce, yet my personal gmail e-mail address is virtually untouched by spammers, even when i use it for craigslist. My opinion might be colored if gmail just doesn't let those spam e-mails through, but i had thought that yahoo's was more restrictive than g-mail's.

[jcorey]

I have some domains with any username going into gmail. They do identify spam wonderfully. I might see one in my inbox every couple months. I see people at work using Yahoo and others with nothing but junk in their inbox (200+ unread messages). I asked one woman how she can even find the ones from her friends. She had no answer. She just accepts that that's the way email is.

I will say, it seems accounts I set up on forums are the most common I see coming in my Spam folder. It is funny, though, seeing "Your Warcraft account is going to be banned" to my email address somewarhammeronlineforum@mydomain.com.

[Ed]

Please forward me the email so I can check it out.
Eddie

[frigginjoe]

I've had a yahoo email I never submitted to any forum or ever typed anywhere, and within 2-3 days it got spammed. It's currently spambombed inexplicably, to the extent I never even started using it.

edit: I'm guessing gmail is better, but they may have parties or systems that are somehow privy to the account that may also be subject to compromise.