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Geek Culture / [LOCKED] Somebody is using my Email Address!!! Sorry about this! But is there a way to stop this person!

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Deathead
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:37
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Hi! In my email account somebody is making Newsletter subsriptions! Under the name of Peter! Is there anyway to stop him from doing this? Please! And he is most definately from America. He done them at the same time aswell. Is there a way to stop this "Peter" idiot from using my email address?

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Peter H
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:43 Edited at: 8th Nov 2007 19:43
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err... wasn't me?

[edit] you tried changing your password right?

One man, one lawnmower, plenty of angry groundhogs.
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Deathead
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:46
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Quote: " you tried changing your password right?"

Yes. But still he had access. I'm going to email MSN to change my email. See what they can do about it.

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MonoCoder
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:46
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You should send him angry emails! Then you should format your computer!

Alternatively...
You could just unsubscribe them, mark them as spam so any future ones go into the spam box (should he resubscribe you), then just delete the emails you've already received.

EBA; FUI; Mario Land Ripoff.
Every time you post a joke in the form of code, mace yourself.
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Deathead
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:47
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I'd have to wait for more to come them Because I deleted them.

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MonoCoder
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:49
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Gaaargh!

EBA; FUI; Mario Land Ripoff.
Every time you post a joke in the form of code, mace yourself.
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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 19:56
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Orrr you could evote your life to killing al humans called peter.
Like a very funny girl in my class yesterday called Alex sugested, although that was mosquitos. It's was a science lesson... look, never mind.

Nya!
Well, yes but - wait, what?
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BiggAdd
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 20:07 Edited at: 8th Nov 2007 20:09
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Haven't you thought... "actually he hasn't got my email password, he is just typing my email in the box to subscribe to newsletters"

Just ignore them, unsubscribe and after a while this guy will get bored. If this dude is from the forum, this is probably exactly what he wanted you to do and get all annoyed etc.


Its finally here!
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Deathead
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 21:26
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Well if he is from the forums he gets a life-time supply of my foot up his ass.


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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 21:31
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footupassfootupass
Indeed, that could get a little tedious after a while, though.

Nya!
Well, yes but - wait, what?
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Xenocythe
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 21:33
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Deathead, it's more than possible that you just wrote your e-mail address down somewhere (e.g. a post on some forum) and from there your e-mail address was taken by a search-bot or spider or whatever they use off of the internet and was auto-submitted to the newsletters.


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Deathead
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 21:38
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You might be right Xeno-Sorry Veintitres.

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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 21:39
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Indeed, a spam bot called Peter.

Nya!
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Libervurto
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 23:07
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Pestering
E-Mail
Thieving
Egregious
Robot

, don't even know what egregious means haha
Answers.com says: "Conspicuously bad or offensive."

"You must be someone's friend to make comments about them." - MySpace lied.
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gbark
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Posted: 8th Nov 2007 23:13
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Yeah, if you have a website (or just on forums, as said above) and make the mistake of typing out your full email address, then search bots will pick it up and start sending their spam to it. Happened to me before.

Just make sure you edit any websites/forum posts that have your full email, and add the return address of the newsletters to your ignore list.
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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 9th Nov 2007 20:26
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Poignant
Extremely
Terrible
Excoupious
Random

Nya!
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Opposing force
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Posted: 9th Nov 2007 21:17
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Please
End
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Reasons

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