hi, i googled my (yahoo) email address, and about 10 sites showed up. they all had my email address set as the contact information for bogus websites for online dating, viagra, sleeping pills, etc. i don not want my name/email associated with this!! they were all tripod sites. i tried to contact them.
has this happened to anyone else??? what should i do??? i feel violated!
2006-09-22 10:34:45 · 5 answers · asked by bridge_song 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
I feel your pain my friend but in all honesty there isn't much you /can/ do about this sort of thing. Most of these bogus forum and webpage posts are done by programs that are designed to crank thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of these kinds of posts a day. Quite often the email address involved is randomly generated, and all too often this kind of thing is done through botnets (large groups of computers that have been infected with a virus that allows Bad People to do whatever they want with the PC's). So the most likely scenario here is some random person's desktop running windows 98 is randomly cranking out these posts totally unbeknownst to it's owner.
2006-09-22 10:40:50 · answer #1 · answered by knieveltech 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need to contact google and ask them to remove your information. This info has made it there because you use an email address. Here is a phone number for Google: 650‑623‑4000 Press 0.
The Yahoo Mail plus is only $20 a year and provides AddressGard. This allows you to make disposable email addresses to use. You use them for everywhere you need an email address. If you start getting spam to that address then delete it and make a new one. You can have up to 10 disposable addresses at one time.
Your regular email address should only be given to people and site you completly trust.
2006-09-22 11:10:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the reason that you use a 'throw away' email address if you fill out things on the Internet.. and never put your email on a site page.. the email address that you are finding on websites.. throw it away RIGHT NOW.. and sign up for a new one.. and only give that out to your friends, relatives.. and whoever you want to email you privately... keep the throw away one for using when asked to fill something out.. you can get another yahoo email, or msn or hotmail or use all three.. remember to keep your private one, just that.. private!! You will avoid a lot of spam and frustration.. don't try to contact anyone using your email.. that will give them the satisfaction they are looking for.
2006-09-22 10:41:15 · answer #3 · answered by ladeehwk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make a report. http://help.lycos.com/newticket.php (They're having MySQL DB problems right now, wait a few minutes then try agian.)
2006-09-22 10:37:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
police maybe?
2006-09-22 10:36:26 · answer #5 · answered by Jay P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋