Did Tnet sell my email address?

Chadeaux · Mar 6, 2013

Nothing worse than the fetid smell of spam at 7:00 in the morning.!

I am suddenly receiving "treasure hunting" spam from United Gold Explorations Limited addressed to "Friends and Fellow Shipwreck Enthusiasts". :icon_scratch:

Curious for several reasons, but mostly because I have no interest in diving or shipwrecks.

I use a different email address for each forum I join . . . because I like to know where my spam comes from. I have not received any similar spam on any of my servers (I host websites, provide free email to others, etc.).

I have also checked with other "justice.com" members I know, and none of them have received this spam.

Curious if Tnet is "sharing" or "selling" email addresses of members to spammers. If Tnet is doing this, how in the hell do I opt out?

Also, this fella has no "opt out" or "unsubscribe" notices in his emails, so will I have to go to his site and stir it up a bit to get removed from his list?

jeff of pa · Mar 6, 2013

sounds to me like here got your email address from somewhere ,
but I doubt very much it was from the owners here.

do you have the email address it came from ?
perhaps I can check if United Gold Explorations Limited was a member here

jeff of pa · Mar 6, 2013

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/shipwrecks/336611-united-gold-explorations-what-s-story.html

Treasure_Hunter · Mar 6, 2013

Chad we are checking with admins, I highly doubt TN is selling but we will find out.

Try a Google search on your email addresd and see what you find.

Dave44 · Mar 6, 2013

I have started getting those emails also. Please look into it?

spartacus53 · Mar 6, 2013

Chad, I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count :laughing9:

I got that same e-mail 2 days ago in my AOL account which is conveniently linked to my T-Net account. Got zilch, nada, zippo, on my yahoo account :laughing7:

Either that, or they are pulling our names out of a hat.

Gotta love America, anything for a buck :laughing9:

spartacus53 · Mar 6, 2013

Oh yeah, today I got this one too

This Company Could Surge Very Soon! This Stock is set to fly. Trade Date: March, 6 Company: GOLD AND GEMSTONE MINING, INC. Symbol traded: G G SM Now: $.018 Target Price: .30 Another Great, Green Start. Updates And What`s Next. Something Special. We Were on The Money with This Company!

Treasure_Hunter · Mar 6, 2013

Per admins, TN does not sell members info.... Admins are checking to see if something has been compromised or if this is coming from somewhere else...

Frankn · Mar 6, 2013

I think I got one too, but I did not open it. Frank

recondigger · Mar 6, 2013

I got one also that wants me to invest in a salvage company that is trying to recover gold and silver from a wreak.

bill from lachine · Mar 6, 2013

A lot of these spammers are pretty sophisticated.....unless you have heavy duty anti spyware, firewalls, etc.....they can track internet activity to pretty much any site you can imagine.....we've had a few issues from the Canadian site also.....and we share nada with other parties insofar as member info is concerned. There's something call spy bots.....pretty much robotic programs that can harvest tons of info off the net.....user beware.

Regards + HH

Bill

LuckyThirteen08 · Mar 6, 2013

Spambots on a public forum,Who`d have thought? lol

Comes with the territory though!

spartacus53 · Mar 6, 2013

bill from lachine said:
A lot of these spammers are pretty sophisticated.....unless you have heavy duty anti spyware, firewalls, etc....

For protection, I have a .50 Cal, oops, wrong thread :laughing7:

jeff of pa · Mar 6, 2013

main Parts of the Response I received.

We definitely do _not_ sell or provide in any form member information to anyone.

It is difficult to avoid these days though, especially for Windows users. Windows and more specifically Internet Explorer users on Windows are targeted by more spyware programs then any other browser/OS combination combined. They run in the background, non-intrusively and watch your page requests to pull information like email addresses and keyword tags to describe interests for marketing reasons.

Now, there are also attacks made on the website software itself regularly which can result in a perpetrator getting access to the members list, including emails. So far TreasureNet has not been victimized that I can remember and we are very diligent about applying security patches as soon as they are made available.

If a user has been targeted the best bet (aside from going OSX/Chrome) is to update your virus/spyware definitions and run a full scan on your computer. Using an email address provider that supports decent spam tools is helpful as well.

Hope this helps..

gldnbrew · Mar 6, 2013

Got one too, just thought it was junk from one of my stock sites and deleted it.

LuckyThirteen08 · Mar 6, 2013

jeff of pa said:
main Parts of the Response I received.

What are the chances they receive banking information when signing up for charter membership through the site ?

jeff of pa · Mar 6, 2013

LuckyThirteen08 said:
What are the chances they receive banking information when signing up for charter membership through the site ?

only if PayPal is selling names, Which I wouldn't rule out, IF Everyone was a charter member who
got contacted, and they told paypal what they are interested in or Paypal
bugged them.
and it seems to me most if not all would have had to posted in the shipwreck forum at some point, or listed gold or shipwrecks as an interest somewhere else.
meaning they were going by perceived interest ? which paypal wouldn't be aware of from here.

I'm going by this http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/shipwrecks/336611-united-gold-explorations-what-s-story.html that United Gold Explorations Limited
is shipwreck people

Backbacon · Mar 6, 2013

spartacus53 said:
Oh yeah, today I got this one too

This Company Could Surge Very Soon! This Stock is set to fly. Trade Date: March, 6 Company: GOLD AND GEMSTONE MINING, INC. Symbol traded: G G SM Now: $.018 Target Price: .30 Another Great, Green Start. Updates And What`s Next. Something Special. We Were on The Money with This Company!

Those "penny" stocks have been used by spammers for years to defraud millions and millions of dollars from people. If anyone receives anything even close to the aforementioned e-mail subjects DO NOT OPEN THE FILE!!! Your computer can be turned into what's known in the tech world as a "Zombie" (This is no bull poop either). Once your infected spammers then can use your PC to distribute other spam to other people making a giant web or "Zombie Army". If you have already opened some of these files you may want to refresh your Malware software on your PC for precautionary measures.