Bombarded with e-mail
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One of my personal e-mail accounts has just been absolutely bombarded with over 300 sign-up confirmation e-mails from websites all over the world. Most of them are the type that require you to click a link to confirm the registration, so they should go away but some just seem to confirming that I'm in. No doubt lots of e-mails to follow from them.
Worryingly, I was also notified of a new addition to my Spotify family plan. This account runs under the same e-mail address as above. I've weeded out the new arrival and changed the password for the Spotify account.
Has this happened to anyone else recently?
Worryingly, I was also notified of a new addition to my Spotify family plan. This account runs under the same e-mail address as above. I've weeded out the new arrival and changed the password for the Spotify account.
Has this happened to anyone else recently?
I may do that, but there's no sign that the e-mail account itself has been tampered with.
It's all stopped now just as suddenly as it began. There were a few stragglers from websites in Australia and Singapore. Most of these are not commercial websites in that they aren't selling anything. Many of them are just discussion groups and forums. Apart from the nuisance value of dumping loads of email on me, I can't see what's been gained here. It all happened within a space of 15 minutes so it must have been an automated system doing it, rather than an individual who has the hump with me for some reason.
It's all stopped now just as suddenly as it began. There were a few stragglers from websites in Australia and Singapore. Most of these are not commercial websites in that they aren't selling anything. Many of them are just discussion groups and forums. Apart from the nuisance value of dumping loads of email on me, I can't see what's been gained here. It all happened within a space of 15 minutes so it must have been an automated system doing it, rather than an individual who has the hump with me for some reason.
Silverage said:
It all happened within a space of 15 minutes so it must have been an automated system doing it, rather than an individual who has the hump with me for some reason.
you don't think there are automated systems that can be used by someone who has the hump with you?The spotify account aspect is the larger concern to me - was it a reasonably robust password?
xeny said:
you don't think there are automated systems that can be used by someone who has the hump with you?
The spotify account aspect is the larger concern to me - was it a reasonably robust password?
I like to think I wouldn't upset anyone to the extent they would arrange something like this for no benefit other that the nuisance factor.The spotify account aspect is the larger concern to me - was it a reasonably robust password?
The Spotify account goes back years and the password was rubbish, frankly. I think it started off as a free account (the one where they play ads all the time) so I didn't put a great deal of effort into it as it was effectively worthless.
It's probably done well to last as long as it did. I've changed it to something much stronger now. The e-mail blizzard has finished it seems.
Silverage said:
Just been doing a bit of reading online and it looks like the Spotify account may have been the target here. All the other sign-ups are just to generate a blizzard of e-mails that the perp hopes will serve to mask the Spotify notification.
I had exactly this 6 months ago. My quidco account had been hacked and a request to withdraw money to a new account - but as you say lost in the deluge of emails. Managed to pick it up and stop it before it cleared. Silverage said:
I like to think I wouldn't upset anyone to the extent they would arrange something like this for no benefit other that the nuisance factor.
The Spotify account goes back years and the password was rubbish, frankly. I think it started off as a free account (the one where they play ads all the time) so I didn't put a great deal of effort into it as it was effectively worthless.
It's probably done well to last as long as it did. I've changed it to something much stronger now. The e-mail blizzard has finished it seems.
The Spotify account goes back years and the password was rubbish, frankly. I think it started off as a free account (the one where they play ads all the time) so I didn't put a great deal of effort into it as it was effectively worthless.
It's probably done well to last as long as it did. I've changed it to something much stronger now. The e-mail blizzard has finished it seems.
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