I Angered Someone

Atrocities · #1 December 14th, 2005, 03:11 AM

In the last day I have had over 360 email virus emailed directly to my Atrocities email account with AE.net.

Since that is specifically used for SEIV, I can only conclude that someone within the community is very angry with me. This is the first time this account has ever received an email virus, and to have 360 plus emails in one day is a bit excessive.

Update, 401 now. My email address for AE.net is no longer valid.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 December 14th, 2005, 03:14 AM

If I was *that angry at you, I'd tell you.

* To clarify, I'm not angry at you. Theoretical.

Atrocities · #3 December 14th, 2005, 03:25 AM

I am over 600 emails now and counting. I cannot shut down my email account as it keeps recieving emails. This is really something.

douglas · #4 December 14th, 2005, 03:29 AM

Maybe some Star Trek fan is trying to make the Canon Cannon a reality

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Atrocities · #5 December 14th, 2005, 03:34 AM

No, this started today. I have not had any angery ST fans on my back for sometime. I think this might be retalation for my post about the Iraq War on SE.net. I am over 650 emails now. They are all the same, sober@@ or something.

Combat Wombat · #6 December 14th, 2005, 04:24 AM

lol Atro you always think everyone hates you, chances are your publicly displayed email got picked up by some hackers email address farming bot and you got put on the list of people he spams virus emails at. Some post at se.net would not cause this. No offense to you but theres alot better political targets to attack

Atrocities · #7 December 14th, 2005, 05:31 AM

Well the final tally is just under 700 emails. I have just finished deleting them all and am sweeping my system again to be sure none got by.

I beefed up my spam blocker, both on my end and on the AE.net server so hopefully this kind of thing won't become a regular issue. Tomorrow will tell the tail.

Atrocities · #8 December 14th, 2005, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Combat Wombat said:
lol Atro you always think everyone hates you, chances are your publicly displayed email got picked up by some hackers email address farming bot and you got put on the list of people he spams virus emails at. Some post at se.net would not cause this. No offense to you but theres alot better political targets to attack

to my knownledge, I have never displayed this email publically in any form that could be considered an email address. It has only been used for SEIV gaming purposes. But never the less, its out there now. And to get nearly 700 emails in one day, well that has to be some kind of record?

Atrocities · #9 December 14th, 2005, 05:34 AM

Wait, I did post it once, the day before yestarday, on the chat channel. I wonder if thats what triggered it?

El_Phil · #10 December 14th, 2005, 07:58 AM

On the subject of weird email experiences a while ago I recieved an email demanding to know what had happened to someone's trainer shipment.

Now a few years back me and a mate had set up a free forum just as joke, I forget the exact reason. So after we finished with it it was found by scam merchants who fill it with offers for all sorts of 'genuine legit phone/trainer/Xbox/etc'. So I changed the layout a bit and added a nice motto

"Dodgy trainers and mobiles available since quite recently.
Helping part fools from money since 1999."

And yet I still get the odd email from people who's stuff hasn't turned up or want some info on the stuff advertised. The message I take from this: some people are stupid.