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Spam and Viruses to Pipex Account

I seem to be getting Spam (selling Viagra and opium amongst other things) to my Pipex e-mail.

Also more disturbingly I have had 2 e-mails blocked by Norton as they had viruses attached.

These were sent to mailing lists on the Pipex domain.

Anyone else getting this problem?.
 
I have had this problem for over year on NTLs email addy and getting daily viruses through to my ISPr email address. just delete them.
 
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Yes thankfully I am deleting them.

The strange thing is that my Pipex e-mail address is supposed to be the "safe" one that I don't give out freely.
 
WE had a change of methods with NTL changed from STB to a SACM the main account that NTL set up for recieving the bill was spammed within mins of it being set up and it hadn't been given to anyone. They just guess loads of addresses and if you click anywhere on them or respond to the click here to stop you get spammed more. Delete without opening them if you can. Mozillas thunderbird is good for that and Outlook will stop anything being downloaded or any responce back to sender unless you say its ok.
 
Grave_Red said:
Yes thankfully I am deleting them.

The strange thing is that my Pipex e-mail address is supposed to be the "safe" one that I don't give out freely.

Same here but the emails are sent to a person with a different name to mine
perhaps pipex re use email accounts?
 
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ip said:
Same here but the emails are sent to a person with a different name to mine
perhaps pipex re use email accounts?
That's nothing to do with Pipex. Spammers spoof (fake) the e-mail headers (the bit that says where the e-mail's from, who it's going to, etc.). Viruses also do this.
 
Get something like Spamcop or Mailwasher and delete it from the mail server without having to download it.
Also change the alias for the account or set up extra email accounts and use different alias' for different purposes; my captain cretin alias gets tons of spam but my business and personal accounts have never received a thing.
 
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