Scammers

Submitted by Donna (United States), Nov 22, 2007 at 09:59

A note of warning. I answered a advertisement on the craigslist for a local dog. After doing this, I constantly recieved emails from everywhere about dying people, etc. I got tired of it, so I sent back emails stating I knew they were scammers and I had reported them. The very next day, I was recieving thousands of emails from thousands of addresses. They were using my address (somehow) as though I was sending out these scam emails to people, and i was getting automated messages, along with hateful replies, and messages to alert me that my email had been read. I contacted my ISP...they were no help.

Finally after weeks of trying to get them to stop the mail, I had to change providers. My provider actually gave me notice that I was abusing the email system and that I had recieved over 20 thousand emails in a week. It was true that I had received the emails, but I wasnt the one abusing the system.

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