On 02/18/17 12:33, Richmond wrote:
ellanios82 wrote:
- 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 started receiving spam from Apple. (Does apple go with spam? maybe.) It was because someone tried to use my email address as their apple-id. They did not succeed because I did not reply to the verification. But Apple continued to send me email afterwards about their products. So I don't know whether you would call that accidental spam.
- interesting - thanks. another thought : although i do not use my yahoo mail, i do use MyYahoo to display news items , and have several links to Linux news : could it be that MyYahoo tracks news items Read, and then provides users mail addresses to commercial vendors ? { soon AI masters all } ........ regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org