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"Inge Jones" wrote in message
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Hi,

since voting in the 'allotments' thingy I have noticed an apparent
increase
in SPAM to my voting address, which was published in a SPAMtrapped(ish)
format.

Anyone else had similar problems?
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I've had a *tremendous* increase in virus spam (with the attachments)
from this morning, but I didn't vote in any allotments thing. I don't
think it's connected to that, there's something else going on. It's
happening to my husband at work today as well, and he doesn't use his
work email address for any non-work related stuff. So something a bit
more cunning than usual is going on, it seems.

Virus SPAM is something different - an infected machine has your email
address.

I am talking about offers to increase the size of various organs, the supply
of various drugs, and lately a query if five miles towing is adequate(!).

This is mainly commercially orientated SPAM using consolidated lists of
email addresses.

One source of these addresses is the automated trawling of News Groups for
valid email addresses.

There was an attempt to 'conceal' the addresses after voting but I am not
sure it was effective.

Cheers
Dave R