jennykadry: I did not get these emails ooo

jennykadry: I did not get these emails ooo

onatisii: SEUN THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY NOW TO PROVE UR INNOCENCE NOT WHEN THAT MOD OF URS R123 IS BLOCKING AND HIDDING ALL COMMENTS THAT ARE BEEN POSTED ON UR EARLIER THREAD ,IF U WANT US TO BELIEVE U TELL THAT MONKEY TO RELESE LL ACCOUNTS HE HAS BLOCKED .CAN U BELIEVE THAT IDIOT IS BOASTING THAT HE WILL LOCK S MUCH AS 1000 ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE THAT QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY

Chaydee: I didn't get any message but this question need to be answered.

No time abeg! Where are the Mod?

It's time to face the gods of lightening!
shebi una sabi hide/close/ban abi

onatisii: SEUN THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY NOW TO PROVE UR INNOCENCE NOT WHEN THAT MOD OF URS R123 IS BLOCKING AND HIDDING ALL COMMENTS THAT ARE BEEN POSTED ON UR EARLIER THREAD ,IF U WANT US TO BELIEVE U TELL THAT MONKEY TO RELESE LL ACCOUNTS HE HAS BLOCKED .CAN U BELIEVE THAT IDIOT IS BOASTING THAT HE WILL LOCK S MUCH AS 1000 ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE THAT QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY

Chaydee:

make dem finish this one abeg

Chaydee:

make dem finish this one abeg

Seun: Valued Nairalanders,

Regarding the e-mail message that Nairaland did not send, people have been asking how the spammers got their email addresses.

Some people believe that the moderators supplied it, even though I've repeatedly re-assured them that we do not have any facility that exposes member emails to moderators. The only two ways a Nairalander can get your email are: (1) If you send them an email message through the forum. (2) If they send you an email message and you reply them.

Yet dozens or possibly hundreds of Nairalanders have been spammed. How did the spammers get all those e-mail addresses?

Well I've been getting bounce messages all day from people who got the spam message, so I tried searching the forum for their email addresses. I discovered that they all posted their email addresses publicly on the forum. Every single email I checked could be found on a public thread.

So all the spammers had to do was run a type of bot known as an email extractor on the forum. With the email extractor they downloaded hundreds of public pages on Nairaland, and extracted all the e-mail addresses posted publicly on those pages. Then they spammed the addresses they collected.

I don't think there's much we could have done to prevent this. If you post your email address on any public page/blog/forum on the Internet, you will be spammed.

So what can you do to protect yourself? The options are: (1) To never post your email address publicly, which is difficult if you're a public person or business person looking for customers. (2) To use an e-mail provider with very good spam management facilities - for example gmail - for email addresses you intend to post publicly on the Internet. In any case, you should cheerfully click the "mark as spam" button whenever you find a spam mail in your inbox. That's what it's meant for!

I hope you are satisfied by this explanation. Feel free to ask me any other questions you have related to this topic.

Have a great day!

blank: Moderators have access to your email especially if you use the report to moderator button.

jennykadry: I did not get these emails ooo

pdudy: @Seun- I as a nairaland user was very angry at the recent developments cos I was sent the mail. But in expressing my displeasure, I was banned by you and your mods (my username pDude). Is this how to run a business? Like a Nazi?

I believe r231 should be disciplined by you (if you are serious about your site) because he was very rude and abusive to me and also he was very clueless to what was happening which make him an incompetent customer service representative.

onatisii: SEUN LISTEN CAREFULLY ,WE LOVE U BECAUSE U ARE INTELLIGENT AND SO FAR NICE ALTHOUGH U TOO ARE LOOKING FOR MONEY,BUT AS MUCH AS WE LIKE U WE CANNOT STAND AND FOLD OUR ARMS WHILE OUR LIVES,DIGNITY AND RESPECT IS BEEN TRAMPLED UPON BY SOME CHEAP DUMB EMPTY SKULL CALLED MODS,THESE MODS WILL PUT YOU IN TROUBLE IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFULL ,EVERYONE HAS BEEN TELLING YOU THIS BUT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO IGNORE THOSE ADVICES.I WILL EVEN SUGGEST YOU RUN A AECURITY CHECK ON THEM.AND AS PER ARROGANCE THEY HAVE NO RIVAL.NL SHOULD HAVE BEEN BOASTING OF 6MILLION MEMBER BY NOW BUT UR MODS ARE KILLING PPL MORALE.ONE PERSON THAT IS NOT HAPPY IS ENOUGH TO CONVINCE 10 PPL NOT TO REGISTER.LIKE I ALWAYS TELL MY FRIEND READ BUT DONT REGISTER N NL.GET RID OF THESE TOUT U CALL MODS

Seun: Valued Nairalanders,

Regarding the e-mail message that Nairaland did not send, people have been asking how the spammers got their email addresses.

Some people believe that the moderators supplied it, even though I've repeatedly re-assured them that we do not have any facility that exposes member emails to moderators. The only two ways a Nairalander can get your email are: (1) If you send them an email message through the forum. (2) If they send you an email message and you reply them.

Yet dozens or possibly hundreds of Nairalanders have been spammed. How did the spammers get all those e-mail addresses?

Well I've been getting bounce messages all day from people who got the spam message, so I tried searching the forum for their email addresses. I discovered that they all posted their email addresses publicly on the forum. Every single email I checked could be found on a public thread.

So all the spammers had to do was run a type of bot known as an email extractor on the forum. With the email extractor they downloaded hundreds of public pages on Nairaland, and extracted all the e-mail addresses posted publicly on those pages. Then they spammed the addresses they collected.

I don't think there's much we could have done to prevent this. If you post your email address on any public page/blog/forum on the Internet, you will be spammed.

So what can you do to protect yourself? The options are: (1) To never post your email address publicly, which is difficult if you're a public person or business person looking for customers. (2) To use an e-mail provider with very good spam management facilities - for example gmail - for email addresses you intend to post publicly on the Internet. In any case, you should cheerfully click the "mark as spam" button whenever you find a spam mail in your inbox. That's what it's meant for!

I hope you are satisfied by this explanation. Feel free to ask me any other questions you have related to this topic.

Have a great day!

jennykadry: I did not get these emails ooo