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Old 10-14-2009   #11 (permalink)
FromTheRafters


 
 

Re: Am I being hacked?

When you get it sorted out, feel free to update this thread.

"rppb" <rppb@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:31748001-BAA8-466E-9BC6-621B861A7E81@newsgroup
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>I tried that. Now I didn't receive an email confirmation when I tried
>to enter M&Ms, Snickers Halloween sweeptakes.I know someone is screwing
>with my mail.I am going to pay someone to check out my computer at my
>house.
> "FromTheRafters" <erratic @nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
> news:Owi0oCbRKHA.4592@newsgroup
Quote:

>> Have you contacted the Tiger Direct people (or wherever it is that
>> you submit your request)?
>>
>> Your request may not be getting to them. Their reply may not be
>> getting sent by them. Their reply may be getting filtered out by your
>> ISPs anti-spam (you checked this if I understand you correctly).
>> Their reply may be getting filtered by your mail rules. Their reply
>> may be getting filtered by Vista's (Windows Mail) anti spam
>> (http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/02/09...mail-settings/).
>>
>> My vista machine came bundled with McAfee (with anti-spam) - so
>> there's another way to lose e-mails.
>>
>> Are you only missing those - yet others (from the same submission
>> source) come through OK?
>>
>> You may need to ask in a "Windows Mail" specific forum if indeed it
>> is a WM issue.
>>
>> "rppb" <rppb@newsgroup> wrote in message
>> news:09F9E36F-AE7E-4461-9299-367E174C4362@newsgroup
Quote:

>>> Sorry, Windows mail
>>> "rppb" <rppb@newsgroup> wrote in message
>>> news:49ABA484-45F0-4540-AFC8-1642513B947A@newsgroup
>>>> outlook express
>>>> "FromTheRafters" <erratic @nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
>>>> news:OXFhDUHRKHA.3296@newsgroup
>>>>> "rppb" <rppb@newsgroup> wrote in message
>>>>> news:EACD69E7-77FA-44E4-A435-D52BA6DF5646@newsgroup
>>>>>>I enter the Tiger Direct sweepstakes and the Lost Treasure
>>>>>>sweepstakes.There is a second step to each sweepstakes.You receive
>>>>>>an email from each and reply to complete the entry.For the last
>>>>>>week I haven't received an email from either to complete the
>>>>>>contest.I checked the spam filtered mail from Comcast.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using a web based e-mail client?
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, not getting e-mails there would have nothing to do with the
>>>>> state of *your* computer.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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