onlytease.com spammers

[breathalyzer]

So I signed up for onlytease.com a couple of months back using a unique email address as usual (just in case). Lo and behold, I've started getting spam on that address. Way to go guys...

[Paul L]

Hi Breathalyzer,

I can guarantee you 100% that the spam has not come from onlytease.com We do NOT, NEVER HAVE AND NEVER WILL sell members email addresses to any third party.

This is the first member from my site that I have heard with this problem and I would be very grateful if you could email me directly with the spam email.

My educated guess is that our Credit Card processor my be involved, as I have read a few posts on other boards of CC proccessors selling email lists.
See this post on Adultwebmasters.co.uk where simonscans.com were having a similiar problem.

I apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you, and can assure you as soon as I get your email the matter will be raised with CCBill (or did you sign up with Globill - please let me know).

As a gesture of good faith from our part, we are happy to provide you with some free membership to the site.

Many thanks

Paul L
Webmaster

[breathalyzer]

It was processed by ccbill. I'm not distrusting you, but if it was spam from you and I forward you the email, you'll know who I am etc. So I won't forward it if that's OK. Thinking about it, I don't really believe it was from you so it must have been the CC company, which is pretty amazing.

I can tell you it linked through to rn1.icommentary.com, and the mail headers (with my info removed) are below. When it arrived, the two images linked through but today the site appears to have been removed. I can't remember what it was advertising.

I can't say I sign up for many sites, so if this is common, I wouldn't know. Actually this is the second time this has happened to me - I signed up for a "free" adult verification service which guaranteed never to sell on your email. Two months later I was getting 10 or so spams a day to that address.


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[Paul L]

Thanks for the info. I will now bring this matter up with CCBill.

If you do want some free membership you will need to email me offline with your CCBill subscription id and I will give you a free month immediately. Send email to info@onlytease.co.uk

I had heard of Ibill using similiar tactics in selling email addresses, but many thought CCbill were not doing the same. Seems we were wrong.

As I have stated before, we always strife to run an honourable site, and will always say things as we see it, (like discouraging people to join if they are expecting a hardcore site etc), and we will never sell the members email addresses.

Thanks for your understanding

Paul L
www.onlytease.com

[MisterC]

If it's a common domain in the e-mail account i.e Hotmail, Yahoo etc etc you will get spam regardless. Spammers hit the major email domains with bots that spew out every possible combination of alpha numeric characters and then sell on those that don't bounce.

I wasn't sure of it at first, but I set up a Hotmail account and never used it apart from logging on once a week. Sure enough 40+ spam messages a week.


C

[buttsie]

Its not surpising really

Whats a little surprising and a little unsettling is that the majority of spam comes from 180 individuals or companies.

Apparently 50 per cent of all emails received or sent are Spam
No wonder the US is legislating laws as we speak
Most of the spam I receive is so sexually stupid I just block it ad nauseum

cheers
B....OZ

[Frank]

I have found that hotmail accounts with an address that include a forname get spammed but those that are a meaningless mix of letters and numbers do not.

Also my business address which is only ever used for business which includes my name is getting spammed by porno sites. They even sometimes get through a fierce anti porn firewall using words like s.e.x. !

I suspect its not hotmail or yahoo, its the fact that a recgnisable name is in the address which is being picked up and spammed.

[belmondouk]

I opened up a Yahoo account using my first & last names separated by an underscore and got no spam at all, not even one, for six months. Then the moment I started signing up to porn sites, it started coming.....

[breathalyzer]

Just to clarify, the domain the email was sent to belongs to me, i.e. it's not a hotmail or yahoo account which would get spammed anyway. I only use this domain for signing up for the occasional website, and I've only been using it about 6 months or so. I used a unique username which only I knew, and hadn't been used anywhere else, to sign up to onlytease.com. So it pretty much points directly to the spammer having direct access to the member list of onlytease.com, somehow.

The spam ad (http://rn1.icommentary.com/tours/nd/mcc/mcc1.jpg) is back online tonight and redirects (via http://rn1.icommentary.com/m/c?l=xxxxxxxx&m=11&s=1100) to http://www.orgiemachine.com. The spammer may be an affiliate or they may be more closely involved, what do I know. I doubt either site owner will trouble themselves to give you a reply. The xxxxx's are where presumably a tracking id was inserted so they know to spam me again. Obviously I'm not repeating it here.

Fiddling around with the parameters they pass, it takes me to different "big name" sites, so I guess these guys are quite savvy.