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O2 Webmail Spam

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:43:51 GMT

Hi there, I have a question about the spam I've been receiving on my O2 email account. I use another provider for my email and am at a loss to explain why and how the spammers got hold of this address since it's only been used for O2 communications! I can only think that it's been given/sold by O2 staff? Is this viable? I'm actually thinking of closing my account as there seems to have been a serious breach of trust. I'm not a happy bunny! Anyone had this happen? Thanks.

O2 Webmail Spam

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:37:20 GMT

You are massively over-reacting. No-one has sold your details or passed them on.

If you were to create an email address with a random name. Then within a few days you would receive spam.

This is because spammers send millions of emails to randomly generated email addresses.

Indeed if you look on-line or in magazines you will see articles where they create random email addresses and see how long it takes for spam to arrive, for a provider like hotmail it only takes a few hours.

O2 Webmail Spam

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:56:06 GMT

I do not feel I'm 'massively over-reacting' - that's your opinion. I have yahoo/gmail addresses and rarely do I receive the type of messages I'm getting here! As I've never used the O2 email account except to exchange messages with O2 I'm naturally feeling puzzled and concerned.

O2 Webmail Spam

jonsie — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:56:20 GMT

Strange, I have had a O2 email account since 1999 and 2 linked accounts for 18 months and I can honestly say that I have never had any spam to any of the accounts. This being the case, it's obvious to me that O2 have never had a policy of selling or passing on all their customer email addresses.

I certainly can't say that O2 have not given or sold on your email details, though I find it doubtful, but it would be interesting to see if anyone adds to this thread so we can have a general idea of the number of people affected by spammers.

O2 Webmail Spam

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 06:22:42 GMT

Hi,

I use a bt e mail address and receive 10-15 spam e mails a day !

I never open an unknown source e mail.

The spam folder does its work for me just fine.
I dont even really think about it now.

Its not really a concern as long as you dont open them or follow links within them.

O2 Webmail Spam

perksie — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:14:15 GMT

I've used an O2 email address for 2 years and have never had any spam to it.

Whereas 2 other addresses with different ISPs due to leaks which were acknowledged by one of them, do attract a fair bit of spam, but don't cause me any problems.

At most I get half a dozen a week, but my email client spam filter takes care of them.

You could maybe set up another one.