Tony ([info]quikchange) wrote,
@ 2007-04-15 12:32:00
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Performancing are violating their own privacy policy
Contrary to their own privacy policy, Performancing appears to have allowed an unscrupulous 3rd party to obtain the unique email address I used when registering for an account with them:

From: Microsoft - Corporation <ciasiabvue@charter.net>
Date: April 15, 2007 12:11:19 PM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: RE: Microsoft And AOL Award Team
Reply-To: microsoftpromo@microsoftpromo.cjb.net

[2 lines removed to protect my email address.]

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Received: by 10.67.116.2 with SMTP id t2mr3736531ugm.1176664568335; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Received: from mtai01.charter.net (mtai01.charter.net [209.225.8.181]) by smtp.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A2B559FC for <performancing@quikbox.ca>; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:15:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Return-Path: <quik@neur0soft.com>
Received-Spf: pass (google.com: domain of quik@neur0soft.com designates 80.175.29.76 as permitted sender)
Received-Spf: pass (forward1: domain of ciasiabvue@charter.net designates 209.225.8.181 as permitted sender)
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on williaf2.miniserver.com
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X-Original-To: quik@neur0soft.co.uk
X-Greylist: Passed host: 209.225.8.181
Message-Id: <596299373.1176664279931.JavaMail.root@fepweb08>
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[info]jbdeboer
2007-04-15 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the tip; I'll be sure to avoid these folk in the future.

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email still visible?
(Anonymous)
2007-04-15 10:32 pm UTC (link)
You said you removed some lines to protect your email address, but I think it's still present in the message trace!

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Re: email still visible?
[info]quikchange
2007-04-16 04:44 am UTC (link)
The addresses still visible are heavily filtered for spam. I have multiple levels of email indirection.

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[info]tangbu
2007-04-16 06:29 am UTC (link)
I never read privacy policies - if it's a site I don't trust (which is most of 'em) I give them a hotmail userid that I never check. It's worked well so far, but the spammers have still found me. I don't particularly like my ISP, but I have to admit that their spam filter is excellent - maybe one spam a month gets through.

You obviously suspected something about these guys - is it habitual or you just had a hunch?

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[info]quikchange
2007-04-16 02:57 pm UTC (link)
It's habitual. Unless I have a very good reason to trust a website, I give them a unique email address at my domain. If I discover that it's been leaked, I just add a procmail rule to block it entirely.

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[info]andukar
2007-04-17 02:25 am UTC (link)
I used to do that too, and still do use unique email addresses for sites, but I recently had to switch to a whitelist instead of a blacklist.

Spam has gotten much worse than it used to be.

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