Virgin Media Community

[HowardML]

That's a new one on us.  I'll ask the VM Forum Team to comment. The police would not be impressed by this advice. Nor am I. The only possibly relevant advice is a report to "Action Fraud" but they don't investigate, just collate reports.

@ModTeam 

[MissPasko]

LOL - you all might find this funny:

The Virgin Media Community Support update email notifications (for this thread only) since 16.43 this afternoon have gone to my spam folder!

[ravenstar68]

It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Virgin Media are playing whack-a-mole here, when in reality you need to stop the moles getting into the tunnels in the first place.

Tim

[MrHalfAsleep]

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@ravenstar68 wrote:

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However I would urge everyone who IS getting these mails to email Amazon to complain.

Tim

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A cynic would say that since Mr Bezos is going through an expensive divorce, he has to generate income somehow.  However, I couldn't possibly comment..

Unlike Monty Python, spam is never off.

[用心棒]

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@MissPasko wrote:

LOL - you all might find this funny:

The Virgin Media Community Support update email notifications (for this thread only) since 16.43 this afternoon have gone to my spam folder!

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The text string sysprem.com now triggers the spam filters and guess what the subject header contained; state of the art spam filtering this is not.

[Whatsisname]

Well Ms Go with your heart

One point we seem to have missed in the initial flurry of irritation; Where did the list of e addresses that the sysprem spammers are using come from. It seemed to have started about a month ago so it would be interesting to know what other providers are likewise affected, if not then who's list has been hacked? 

[coenoby]

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@Whatsisname wrote:

Where did the list of e addresses that the sysprem spammers are using come from.

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It would be interesting to know that but not really that helpful in stopping the flood of spam that people are seeing.

Once valid email addresses have become available to spammers, by whatever means, you cannot make them secret again.

Coenoby

[Daytrader]

What if i chose the Discard action instead, what does that do ? thx

[coenoby]

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@Daytrader wrote:

what does that do ?

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What it says.

Discard, dispose of, remove, delete.

Generally speaking you need use that option with care when you are creating filter rules, once an email has been discarded it's gone for good. You cannot recover it and you have no record you ever received it. Of course you might say that's ok in this case.

Coenoby

[Daytrader]

Well, you got option to move to Delete folder, and you still got all the messages, i thought Discard meant, you dont even receive the message, its deleted at virgin server side ? so is that the case ?