sponsor selling my email to spammers? - GoFuckYourself.com

Zester · 03-02-2012, 05:52 AM

when I sign up an as affiliate to a sponsor, I create an email address for that sponsor only,
something like "[email protected]"
I never publish that email anywhere or give it to anyone else but that sponsor.

after a few months of getting newsletters from that sponsor (which is ok) I start getting spam to that email from other sources.

what exactly is happening here? how do spammers find that email ?

Harmon · 03-02-2012, 05:54 AM

They sell them, they share them, some of it you agree to in the ToS when you sign up, some you do not. This is online marketing, you are bound to get your webmaster account on a few lists. Some of the programs are really scummy when it comes to this.

lucas131 · 03-02-2012, 06:01 AM

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combson · 03-02-2012, 06:04 AM

I have an old email account from 2002 I used only for joining sponsor programs and you will not believe how much spam I receive daily!

Zester · 03-02-2012, 06:57 AM

I wonder if it even worth the effort of giving different emails anymore.
it does help to know which sponsors sell/share your email and which do not

Zester · 03-03-2012, 10:53 AM

i guess not

DBS.US · 03-03-2012, 10:56 AM

If they sell my email, I sell theirs

CyberHustler · 03-03-2012, 11:13 AM

alextokyo · 03-03-2012, 11:17 AM

Anyone who's read this far... you might as well just hit the back button now, because these bitches clearly won't be naming names. Why not? Heaven forbid a tag team of part time "reps" 2 months in the biz turn up to shout them down, conveniently ignoring the fact that the provider of their $400/month + commission paycheck is in the wrong.

Barefootsies · 03-03-2012, 11:17 AM

Nothing new there.

Mailing lists are big business. Your email is an asset like anything else.

Some programs monetize all of their assets and databases effectively.

InfoGuy · 03-03-2012, 12:00 PM

If you are referring to spam from other sponsors, it's quite common for affiliate managers to leave program 'A' for program 'B' and then use their old webmaster contacts at their new jobs.

BareBacked · 03-03-2012, 12:22 PM

Prolly some one stole the affiliate programs database.
Alot of the software used is not very secure

rowan · 03-03-2012, 12:59 PM

I get regular (not adult wm) spams sent to a unique address I used for ccbill's affiliate system years ago.

martinsc · 03-03-2012, 01:17 PM

SnakeX · 03-03-2012, 01:22 PM

there is no way to avoid all these spam emails

just use only one email

Naughty-Pages · 03-03-2012, 01:25 PM

What i think is even more odd is when a program opens a new program... and they import your account info into the new program.. that's happened to me a half dozen times without me noticing an initial notification..

and then some time later on I start getting emails with FHG codes and shit for the new program in my email. then I'm like "I don't remember signing up for that program, wtf?"... I log in, and my info is all in there.

lol

Hermes · 03-03-2012, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BareBacked

Prolly some one stole the affiliate programs database.
Alot of the software used is not very secure

I guess this is what usually happens. Don't think many sponsors sell out webmaster emails without permission that would be just silly.

SmokeyTheBear · 03-03-2012, 10:09 PM

alot of times the affiliate software they use has backdoors built in for accessing this sort of data. One of the most popular adult affiliate program software had this happen. If you talk about it , they get all pissy , haven't heard anything about them doing anything to find or prosecute the persons responsible.. all we know is they used an admin account to steal data.

alextokyo · 03-03-2012, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

If you talk about it , they get all pissy , haven't heard anything about them doing anything to find or prosecute the persons responsible.. all we know is they used an admin account to steal data.

Yeah well, it's pretty much common knowledge that outside of a few key people, it is possible to fuck over virtually anyone in this biz with zero repercussions. As long as you can stomach a little bravado/whinging on the boards, you're golden.

venus · 03-04-2012, 01:17 AM

Your doing what surfers do abd blaming the websites for selling your email address, I get people using email addresses like this all the time, and every nw and then get blamed for spam...Email are to valuable to me for me to sell, so I do not do it.

But what I do know, from looking at the emaiil logs from my email server, is that spammers send emails to every variation of name at a paticular domain name... SO why do you get spam... because some spammer saw one of his emails get through and added it to his good list...its that simple...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zester

when I sign up an as affiliate to a sponsor, I create an email address for that sponsor only,
something like "[email protected]"
I never publish that email anywhere or give it to anyone else but that sponsor.

after a few months of getting newsletters from that sponsor (which is ok) I start getting spam to that email from other sources.

what exactly is happening here? how do spammers find that email ?

InfoGuy · 03-04-2012, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

alot of times the affiliate software they use has backdoors built in for accessing this sort of data. One of the most popular adult affiliate program software had this happen. If you talk about it , they get all pissy , haven't heard anything about them doing anything to find or prosecute the persons responsible.. all we know is they used an admin account to steal data.

Surprisingly, data theft hasn't escalated to ID theft. Sponsors have plenty of personal info which could enable this possibility.

iSpyCams · 03-04-2012, 08:29 AM

just use gmail, for everything, they will filter out the spam.

scottybuzz · 03-04-2012, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by pompousjohn

just use gmail, for everything, they will filter out the spam.

gmail are good, but not fool proof.
you will still get spam come to the inbox and get important mail into spam.

SmokeyTheBear · 03-04-2012, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by InfoGuy

Surprisingly, data theft hasn't escalated to ID theft. Sponsors have plenty of personal info which could enable this possibility.

i'm not so sure that is entirely true, remember the israeli hit squad. They all had shitloads of fake id/passport and payoneer cards. Makes you wonder...

Arton · 03-05-2012, 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBS.US

If they sell my email, I sell theirs

Their not selling your emails, just add you to Spam DB but I don`t get why they think that we all are morons.

Zester · 03-05-2012, 01:35 PM

nevermind

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Harmon ( ͡ʘ╭͜ʖ╮͡ʘ) Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 20,005	They sell them, they share them, some of it you agree to in the ToS when you sign up, some you do not. This is online marketing, you are bound to get your webmaster account on a few lists. Some of the programs are really scummy when it comes to this. __________________ [email protected]

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