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Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:38:00 GMT

This morning I received a spam/phishing email sent to the address I used to sign up to O2 forums. I've not used this email address for anything else, and it's unlikely it would be randomly guessed. I use a different email address for most things I sign up to online.
The email title is "Your account opening is completed" and supposedly from Commonwealth Bank.
Is there an admin I should report this too, and has anyone else had similar experience?
My email address is not shown in my profile.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:22:09 GMT

I got that email this morning. However, the address it was sent to was not the one I use here and one that has been little used in the past 12 months.
These people have a thousand and one ways of getting email addresses but I doubt it has been via this site or O2
Thankfully, my spam filter keeps them out of my inbox. Although I do sometimes read them when I am in need of a laugh

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:09:31 GMT

Yeah I got this to via my o2 email which I use to login to the o2 website mmmmmmm funny one!

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:17:53 GMT

Yes....so did I and on that email address I rarely see spam.....can't remember the last time.
Looks like this site has been hijacked and is being used via > http://www.wallace-funeralhomes.com/
http://www.whoisxy.com/t3resultpage.asp ... rid=115923
So "@cba.com.au" will now be filtered into the deep blue abyss.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:58:01 GMT

I also got this to an email address I only used when I signed up with O2 / forums.
Purported to be from the Co-operative bank .co.uk. But the link goes to http://www.bevenyoung.com.au/coop/
I've not used this email address for anything else, so appears that the email list has been compromised/stolen and the above site highjacked.
Posting this just for info, so O2 can maybe try and find the source of the compromise of my contact details.
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Subject: Application number: AA700003125331
Dear Customer,
Application number: AA700003125331
Your Term Deposit ********9470; has now been opened and now is available online.
To view details of your new account, go to the 'My applications' section.
Yours sincerely,
Co-operative Bank PLC.
Please do not reply. To confirm this is a genuine email sent by the Bank, please check your inbox on the Co-operative Bank home page. Message: 428943218

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:00:45 GMT

Yep - also got this one on my O2 Forum email address - usually they come on an old Yahoo account

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:42:39 GMT

Yes, I got the Co-op one this morning.
From the email header I received :

Received: from web1.dotcharm.com (anzianotech.com. )

It looks like http://www.anzianotech.com and http://www.bevanyoung.com have been hacked

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:56:03 GMT

Not sites I've ever used or have even heard of.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:30:03 GMT

Had both these emails as well to my O2 account.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:27:46 GMT

Same here, and is on an email address used only for o2, never used anywhere else. Something has been compromised somewhere. As you can see I've never even posted in the forum before

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:11:34 GMT

Same here, and is on an email address used only for o2, never used anywhere else. Something has been compromised somewhere. As you can see I've never even posted in the forum before

So are you saying it's your O2 (main site) registered email address rather than an email address used for just the O2 Forum ?

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

adamtemp64 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:19:13 GMT

spammers use all sorts of methods to generate email addresses for a valid domain. When a combination works the bit before the @ will be used against other domains and distributed as a valid email address. Just delete and ignore the spam or let your isp spam filter do its job.
I doubt that it is a breach in security etc
But If you are concerned that your details have come from a breach you are best talking to o2 or any other company that you feel has let your email address slip directly and not in a customer forum.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

jonsie — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:03:21 GMT

I've had an o2 email address for over 13 years and never had a spam email yet so I have no reason to suspect that o2 sell or pass on my details to any spammers. As Adam says, just delete or filter them.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:35:40 GMT

I have no reason to suspect that o2 sell or pass on my details to any spammers.

I don't think anybody has suggested that have they ?

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

adamtemp64 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:41:07 GMT

Same here, and is on an email address used only for o2, never used anywhere else. Something has been compromised somewhere. As you can see I've never even posted in the forum before

I have no reason to suspect that o2 sell or pass on my details to any spammers.

I don't think anybody has suggested that have they ?

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:58:24 GMT

But where do they state or even suggest that O2 have sold or passed on details to spammers ?
The inference in stevyjones post which I was questioning, was that O2 deliberately released data to spammers which is totally wrong as it's illegal.
We all know that this current forum has been exploited by outsiders so I would imagine that it's a relatively simple procedure for those same outsiders to hack into the O2 forum database and steal email addresses to perpetuate their spamming activities.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

browni — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:40:26 GMT

I received both these emails twice.
One copy of each to the email address I used originally to sign up to this forum and one copy of each to the email address used for my current login.
It does seem kinda suspicious.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Kevin_Roberts — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:13:55 GMT

I'm also receiving a lot of eMail spam that I know can only have come from someone having access my 02 account details, not my forum account. Firstly this is my first Forum post so there is no historical data to be mined. Secondly the name by which they address me is ONLY found in my O2 registered name. When my O2 account was created, on buying my phone, the sale rep mis-typed my name as "Kevins". I am recieving spam email from all over the place addressed to "Kevins".

I've contacted 02 by the provided live chat feature to report this significant breach of thier security and was fobbed off. Hence my post on this public forum to ensure that this issue has visibility and hopefully to prompt a reasonable conversation about how my data has been compromised and the implications under the Data protection act etc and to ensure O2 put in place something to stop this happening.

Kev

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

perksie — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:30:52 GMT

Highly unlikely anything has been compromised as it's fairly easy for this to happen.

Don't reply and put the address in your spam folder which should help.

Re: Spam sent to O2 forum email address

Toby — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:53:04 GMT

Hi Kevin,

I have sent you a Private message.

I'll now close this thread as it's about an older issue.

Cheers, Toby