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Subject: Gadzooks, you bounder! You've stolen my email address!

bitplayer opened this issue on Sep 20, 2007 · 3 posts


bitplayer posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 8:43 AM

In another thread about this email problem, Andy Welder offers the opinion that the Rendo email addresses are being stolen from some MEMBER'S computer which has been compromised by a spammer.  If you ever write to that member (or members) using your Rendo email address then your email address will be stolen.  I imagine that Andy may be correct that that is sometime happening.  But that doesn't explain my situation (and the situation reported by many other members).

A week ago (approximately) I created a new email address specifically for Renderosity.  I have NEVER used this email address to communicate with ANYONE.  I have NEVER received any email at this address from ANYONE BUT RENDEROSITY.  And yet it has ALREADY been compromised !!!

Now, if MY system was compromised, I could expect to receive spam from all my various addresses (DAZ, AMAZON, etc).  But I don't.  Just my Rendo address is compromised.

Tell me, Andy, how can this be anyone's fault but Renderosity's???