Re: Email Compromised

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In Reply to: Email Compromised posted by why ask why on November 26, 2005 at 02:20:41:

: I have some questions, but main my purpose for posting this is as an fyi..

: I have one of those flexible email accounts that allow me to add a unique string to the email address. This allows me to give out unique address to all the companies I do business with, such as fund manager. I have just received a spam message on my unique fund manager email addresss.

: Question for everybody:
: This particular spam had a subject of "Attracting women is so easy now!". Anybody else receive this spam recently (Friday, Nov 26)?

: Question for Mark:
: I'm fairly certain you would never intentionally sell out our email addresses. It would make no sense to do so.
: - Do you use a 3rd party vendor when sending out email announcements?
: - Do you know if your website or website files have been compromised?

Hello,

First, let me confirm with what you said: we never disclose any personal information, including email addresses, to anyone outside Beiley Software. When we send out email announcements, we handle that ourselves. I do not believe any of our files have been compromised. If you have ever posted a message on this message board, and placed your email address, then this would be one way your email would be publicly available. The email address is not required when posting to this message board. The other way your custom email could have been compromised is at your ISP, where your alias or special email account is known.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00/XP/2003

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