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Anyone else notice this??

  • 03-02-2004 1:54pm
    #1
    b3t4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    Sorry now if this doesn't belong here but I had no idea where to post this.

    I have a free eircom email account and ever since the launch of their new feature the "email protector" I have noticed that I am getting on adverage 5 or more spam emails a day. I was very lucky before and would only get one or so spam emails every couple of months to that account. It isn't an account that I would use for internet forms and only a small number of people have this email. I'm just wondering how all these places now have this email address.

    I am just wondering has anyone else found this??

    Thanks,
    A.


Comments

  • #2
    moridin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭moridin


    I used to work for a UK ISP where they launched something similar (based on brightmail) and the exact same thing started happening - I'd say report it to eircom, but don't hold your breath ...


  • #3
    uzami
    Closed Accounts Posts: 507 ✭✭✭uzami


    yeah.

    I set up an account recently just as an email forwarder and it's getting spammed. No one knows or could possibly know the address.

    It is puzzling......


  • #4
    ainiseoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭ainiseoir


    Eircom have better ways for making a few euros for the Bean Baron.
    I recently signed up for the e-mail protector and it works a treat.
    So well that when some objectionable stuff began to appear in the wife's e-mail, I decided to sign her up as well.Thats where the trouble started.
    It would appear that it is possible to have this e-mail protection account enabled, but not have one's e-mail scanned! Not many people know this, including the experts who sit behind the premium lines for eircom.
    Despite the fact that the cost of the service is a mere €2 a month it is possible to spend a few years subscription talking to these guys who's techniques follow a certain pattern.
    Firstly, one has to convince them that there is a problem, secondly one waits for ages with or without musack, before they get back and admit that there is a problem, and thirdly another wait before they get back to tell you that the problem was sorted, which in the fullness of time turns out to be bull****.
    I cannot believe that such a system exists. Even their customer relations people, who beg you to contact them in the "Unlikely"event of a problem, have ignored my e-mail. What can one do?
    And to think that I signed up for their broadband !! I wait in fear!!


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