OT - Received SPAM on my uniquely reg'ed e-mail address

[Roaster]

Hi,
did this happen to others as well?

During the order process at Digital River I've given them a very unique e-mail address (twonkymedia@die-....de), created for the single purpose of registering Twonkymedia Server. This e-mail address was not used anywhere else. Today I got a spam mail to this address:

http://sacleirt.com but i dont want to do anything else either Reading about different Twitter clients for Macs Opera tango theme, not bad at all Just became a follower of teamslipstream on
think I need a little more sleep More stuff to do She& 8217 s Getting Out

Was Twonykmedia hacked? Do they even sell e-mail addresses? Or is there any security hole at Digital River?

[mgillespie]

I do the same with my email address, and never seen any problems. There could be lots of areas for compromise, including your local computer... Have you scanned it with a reputable and upto date spyware and virus scanner?

[Twonky_Rick]

I don't know why this is happening, but I can tell you that Twonkymedia has not been hacked (at least not in the two years, I've been here) and we HAVE NEVER, AND WILL NEVER sell e-mail addresses to anyone.

I'd also be very surprised if there is there any security hole at Digital River.

- Rick

[Roaster]

Thanks for your reply.

I can confirm that my virus scanner is up to date and did not encounter any problems. Over years now I did not have any issues with trojans or similar. The e-mail is not stored elsewhere. The e-mail I've used is really unique as mentioned above.

My domain is not online, I'm just using it for e-mail purposes.

No clue where this spam derives from

[wavestar]

Hi
About 2 weeks ago I also suddenly started getting spam at my unique Twonky adress too. VERY DISAPPOINTED.

Afraid Twonky can not just say it was not them:
- my email has several hundred unique emails, and none of the others were effected
- I'm an IT Consultant: pro hardware firewalls anti virus and spam measures everywhere on my kit, nothing would get through without me knowing
- I have seen a few other customers on forums around the same time saying the same hit them
wavestar

[Twonky_Rick]

This is absolutely no possible way this is occuring because of anything PacketVideo or TwonkyMedia has done.

I have e-mail addresses that are never given out, and they get spam all of the time.

- Rick

[Roaster]

OK,

let's do a test then. I've just posted a change request for my e-mail address, hopefully they will change it ASAP.

Let's see when new spam mails arrive. Again I've used a very unique e-mail address which cannot be build upon merging some words from a dictionary or from any other source.

[Twonky_Rick]

Why don't you create another e-mail address that is similar to the first one, but NOT send it to us as a test. I predict you'll get spam on both after a few weeks.

- Rick