+nightmaker Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 i can guarantee you that no Geocaching.com account email addresses are sold or otherwise travel outside of Groundspeak's servers. Your address must have been compromised via some other route. Quote Link to comment
+tommeke47 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! Im recieving emails for new caches too for nearly month but i dont get spamm (from other websites) i do get almost every day new placed caches in the environment of 20 miles but thats it. Quote Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! How you discovered Groundspeak sold your address, I have no idea. You do realize you can get spam without ever using the address to sign up for anything, right? Try creating a new Hotmail account, wait a week, and see how many spam emails it receives. I had an email account when I worked for the Canadian Navy. That account was NEVER used for anything other than internal use. It was never used to sign up for anything on other sites. It would still receive spam emails about once a week. Quote Link to comment
4wheelin_fool Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! How you discovered Groundspeak sold your address, I have no idea. You do realize you can get spam without ever using the address to sign up for anything, right? Try creating a new Hotmail account, wait a week, and see how many spam emails it receives. I had an email account when I worked for the Canadian Navy. That account was NEVER used for anything other than internal use. It was never used to sign up for anything on other sites. It would still receive spam emails about once a week. Someone could find addresses using a program to check for available account names, and records the ones that have been taken. Apparently Hotmail makes it easy for them to do this. Quote Link to comment
MisterEFQ Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Groundspeak didn't sell your email. Guess how much spam I receive since getting alerts? Zero in two+ years. Quote Link to comment
+Lady Loki Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I haven't gotten spam in either of the emails I've used here. Quote Link to comment
+Dan2099 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! If it wasn't for spam mail I would have never increased my size, got rich by helping that Nigerian prince, met many sexy singles, or found great deals across the net! Quote Link to comment
+Lineman101 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! If it wasn't for spam mail I would have never increased my size, got rich by helping that Nigerian prince, met many sexy singles, or found great deals across the net! dadgum, that was so funny I blew out some of my peanut butter sandwich onto the screen. Thanks alot. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 If it wasn't for spam mail I would have never increased my size, got rich by helping that Nigerian prince, met many sexy singles, or found great deals across the net!You might appreciate this: Quote Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I guess gc.com has gotten into the life insurance game now. Too much of a coincidence that i just received an email telling me that i qualified for $500,000 worth just now while reading this thread... Quote Link to comment
+The Grateful Cacher Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! It's really too bad that you're getting spam, but I'm with everyone else here. I've NEVER had any spam in the Gmail account I use for Geocaching. You must be a victim of coincidence. Quote Link to comment
+Manville Possum Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Ever since I signed up for alerts for new caches I've been receiving spam in my inbox,I've had this email for over a year and never received any spam in it,I use it mostly for alerts from my banks and such but figured I would have been safe with this site. If I knew I Groundspeak sold email addresses I would have made up a new one specifically for it. To say I'm not happy is putting it mildly,in all honesty I'm down right PISSED!!! If it wasn't for spam mail I would have never increased my size, got rich by helping that Nigerian prince, met many sexy singles, or found great deals across the net! I have a geocache in Nigeria listed on another site. The person that maintains it for me sent me a photo of themself holding a cardboard sign with the posted coordinates on it. We love Spam. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I haven't gotten spam in either of the emails I've used here. Me too, the Email address I use on here is ONLY used on here and I've never had any SPAM on that Email. Must just be a co-incidence for the OP. Quote Link to comment
+adt1982 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Several years ago my brother created a new e-mail address. Within a few hours, and having not given the address to anyone, the first e-mail he received was spam. It can happen through a program that guesses at possible e-mail addresses and sends out en masse. Quote Link to comment
+WarNinjas Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 The email I use for this I don't sign up for anything else and have never had a problem. Quote Link to comment
+TomToad Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Another thing, could it be that you have had another similar email address? There are crawlers that scan web pages and find valid email such as abc@google.com and will spam not only that email, but also abc@yahoo.com, abc@hotmail.com, abc@aol.com, and a whole host of other popular email sites in case you have an account there as well. Quote Link to comment
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