Why am I receiving spam emails from Fruit-Emu ?

potzynoodle · 31-12-2007, 12:01 PM

Today I have received two identical private messages from webmaster@fruit-emu.com This is the message that was sent:
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Hi,
I'm new here, how's it going?

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

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buddha
http://dharma.122mb.com
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Again, please do not reply to this email. You must go to the following page to reply to this private message:
http://www.fruit-emu.com/forums/private.php

All the best,
Fruit-Emu (Fruit Machine Emulation)
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Has your mail server been hijacked ?

PLEASE POST A REPLY ASAP. Thankyou.

Daza5056 · 31-12-2007, 12:03 PM

Yes, I have had those aswell......

cashbox1 · 31-12-2007, 12:14 PM

sounds as if someone could be taking the piss with a spambot

duplu · 31-12-2007, 12:29 PM

Is it a private message or an e-mail? If it's a private message then let me have the username and I'll delete them. It sounds like it is a PM because you get an alert from the site when you get a PM and the alert comes from webmaster@fruit-emu.com.

It it's an e-mail then it's just a bot using random 'from' addresses. You can make an e-mail look like it has come from anywhere quite easily. The only way to truly tell is to look at the e-mail header.

DaemonX · 31-12-2007, 01:14 PM

I agree, it's easy to fake an email, even so that when you reply, it returns to webmaster etc...

However, where did they get your personal email from, that is the question?