I am not fully sure yet, but it looks like ClassicFM needs to be added to my personal list of “Bad Organisations” which sell on your email address to spam houses.<\/p>\n

I have mentioned this in the past, but basically when I sign up for various things online I use a Gishpuppy<\/a> email address. Ok, it is an ugly website but the service is really useful. With Gishpuppy you can create an email account tailored for a specific use which re-directs your email to any account you want.<\/p>\n

To this end, when I registered for a special offer at ClassicFM.com<\/a> a while ago I used the email address classicfm.zqa at gishpuppy.com. This is the only place I have ever used the email address and the only time I used it.<\/p>\n

While I was on holiday (and all day today), I have had in the region of 8 – 10 spam mails sent to that email address. Not a massive amount, but annoying – especially when I have only used the email in a single place. For completeness, the header information reads: (I have removed my real email address and munged the gishpuppy one)<\/p>\n

Return-Path: <Pace2Calderon@comptia.com>
\nX-Original-To: [REAL EMAIL REMOVED]
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\nDelivered-To: [REAL EMAIL REMOVED]
\nReceived: from minuteman.ai.net (minuteman.ai.net [205.134.188.6])
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\nby minuteman.ai.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 60F0A9A3
\nfor <classicfm.zqa @ gishpuppy.com>; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
\nReceived: by event.comptime.net (Chostfix, from userid 322)
\nid 22DCE52121; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:33:17 -0800
\nX-Original-To: rat-07@guide.comptime.net
\nDelivered-To: industry-07@advertisement.comptime.net
\nDate: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:33:17 -0800
\nFrom: “Clarke, Consuelo” <Pace2Calderon@comptia.com>
\nTo: classicfm.zqa @ gishpuppy.com
\nSubject: Recruiting [GishPuppy]
\nSender: Pace2Calderon@comptia.com
\nPrecedence: bulk
\nReply-To: Pace2Calderon@comptia.com
\nMessage-Id: <20070707173010.60F0A9A3@minuteman.ai.net>
\nX-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.5.476 [269.10.2\/890]
\nMime-Version: 1.0
\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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All of them were pretty much the same as this (with different return addresses and paths) and I am sure people who know much more about the subject than I do can make more sense of it.<\/p>\n

It is possible that Gishpuppy is the weak link and sold my email address on (or had it stolen) but as I have dozens upon dozens of Gishpuppy addresses, I am not sure how likely that is.<\/p>\n

At the moment, I can only assume that ClassicFM have either deliberately allowed my address to be used or are just inept at securing my details.<\/p>\n

Shame on them.<\/p>\n

[tags]Bad Shops, Spam, Classic FM,Gishpuppy[\/tags]<\/p>\n

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