18 Feb
2017
18 Feb
'17
15:15
Bryon Adams wrote: > On February 18, 2017 8:37:39 AM EST, Per Jessen> wrote: >>ellanios82 wrote: >> >>> On 02/18/17 11:23, ellanios82 wrote: >>>> On 02/18/17 11:04, Per Jessen wrote: >>>>> ellanios82 wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello List, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> - i received a spam mail : >>>>>> >>>>>> "SUSE can Help your Business" : Spam e-mail received on MyYahoo >>>>>> mail account. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Spam is always in the eye of the beholder - on 15/2 I also >>>>> received a mail >>>>> "See how SUSE can help your business succeed". I think I get >>>>> these every >>>>> now and then, not sure what it was I signed up for and where, but >>>>> I wouldn't >>>>> call it spam. >>>>> >>>> >>>> - the reason i am suspicious causing me to use word 'spam' is that >>>> the Yahoo mail account is dormant and not used : thus am wondering >>>> "How" can someone have got hold of the email address : never before >>>> have i had any SUSE referenced message >>>> >>>> >>>> - i remain : mystified >>>> >>>> ....... >>> - still wondering how someone got the address as account not used >>> : >>> then just recalled that Yahoo suffered a big Hack >>> abt a year ago? : perhaps the hackers are only now getting round >>> to selling off millions of e-mail addresses >> >>I find it highly unlikely for SUSE or Microfocus to buy addresses of >>end-users to advertise an enterprise product .... >> >>How they got your address - if you've never, ever used it and nothing >>is ever forwarded to it, that is difficult to explain. > > Perhaps yahoo sold it? I never use my AOL but that doesn't stop it > from getting spam. Sure, but why should SUSE buy an end-user address for advertise an enterprise product to .... doesn't make much sense. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org