posted on May 26, 2002 12:45:33 AM
In the past couple of weeks, I seem to be getting a lot of junk emails trying to sell books, courses, elinks, etc; on how to make $100,000 a month (etc) on eBay. Most of the links are from overseas sites. There's even ones that try to bill you on PayPal, and other instant payment sites.
Anyone else seen a lot of these, or did I just get on the wrong mailing list.
posted on May 26, 2002 08:26:04 AM
Honestly, I don’t read eBay mail!
I’ve been on eBay for 6+ years, and I can normally tell whether a mailing is directly from eBay or not. If it is, it automatically is sent into a file on Outlook Express, unless I recognize it as one telling me a gallery picture or such has a problem.
Ads, which do not originate from a source I am familiar with, I delete without looking at them. We get 200-300 e-mails a day, and I don’t pull the mail in through Outlook, but go to my ISP’s Web mail to review mail and delete all mail not related to business or from personal friends. The same is true for regular mail, I only open business & personal mail - ads, promo’s, jokes, chain letters, solicitations, are thrown in the garbage, unopened at the post office before I bring the mail home.
Time is money, and I can’t see wasting it opening or reading that which I am not interested in.
posted on May 26, 2002 10:23:23 PM
I've also been getting 'junk' mail. I have a mailbox set up only for my auctions on eBay. Yet, I seem to be getting a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with eBay. I think people are taking the email address of sellers and using them for their own benefit. One thing that happened is that I had to leave neg. feedback for a non-paying buyer. Since that time I have gotten some weird stuff like an email stating that if I continued to send certain material through the email I would be reported. What material? I didn't send anything that was bad, and the address which claims I did is unknown to me. Sometimes stuff is returned as undeliverable and I have not sent it, and I don't know who the recipient is. Does that make sense? Do you suppose the irrate buyer is trying to get me bumped off eBay?
posted on May 26, 2002 11:23:06 PM
homestead7,
You had your e-mail address stolen by a spam company. I had this happen to me a while back. I even get e-mails from myself in another e-mail address that I have. It is from an online company trying to sell their product or service to you. What happened is they hired a spam company to send out spam to anyone that made the list for the product they are selling. Then the spam company steals someones e-mail address, (unsure how they do that yet, but I am sure some computer geek knows how) then send all of that spam out and when it gets reported to any ISP that the spam is being sent, the poor person that had their identity stolen has a whole new can of worms to deal with. And to top it off, the spam company as well as the company selling the merchandise don't have to deal with an ISP trying to stop spam.
Good luck in your dilema.
posted on May 27, 2002 12:56:44 AM
caffeitalia,
How did you handle it? Should I change my eBay user name and email address, then close my present email box? Or will this all pass in time.
