Strange Email Received

[skorpien]

Hello,

I'm unsure how to address this issue, but something rather strange happened.

I received an email today from somebody that I do now know that was strangely dated for 12/12/2012. The subject said "unsubscribe" and the only recipient in the "To" field was "newsletter<at>overclock3d<dot>net" with the main body of text being "I never subscribed to this - <sender's email address>"

I then tried emailing a member of your staff as I had no idea why I would receive such a message, but it was bounced back with a mail delivery failure notice saying that my IP address was in the SORBS DNSBL database.

I have no idea if this is just a spam message or if it's legitimate, but I wanted to bring it up to you in case it is an actual issue.

If you require any additional information, please feel free to send me an email or a private message and I will gladly oblige.

Lastly, may I suggest a way to easily get in touch with technical support, such as a web form or a dedicated email address that does not block IP addresses? I have an account with mail.com (though that will be changing now that I know their IP address is blocked) and it's rather frustrating having my legitimate email blocked as spam.

Thank you for your time.

 

[SuB]

Thanks for letting us know, can you pm me the full headers of the email and I'll look into it.

Thanks for reporting it

Sub

 

[dipzy]

i got this too

 

[SuB]

Did you also get a proper newsletter from newsletter at overclock3d . NET or from overclock3d. co . uk

 

[KaraMurat]

Glad to see I'm not the only one, received an email about 10-15 minutes ago.

From: newsletter-owner@overclock3d.net on behalf of Name Surname (name.surname@provider.com)

This sender is in your safe list.

Sent: 17 January 2013 18:44:00
To: newsletter@overclock3d.net

Main Message:

"I never subscribed to this - name.surname@provider.com"

(Removed details to protect identity)

 

[SuB]

Kara can you pm me the person's address please

Thanks

P.S. Anyone else who receives this please don't put the address in the forums. It will only make it worse Thank you!

(I appreciate that no-one has up to now, thanks guys)

 

[maniac]

i got it too just to let you know :|

 

[skorpien]

Thanks for the quick response. I've PM'ed you the original message and full header information. Seems like it's more widespread than just me.

 

[Whiskers]

I have two email addresses registered with OC3D and both just received this same email.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

i just got it too and my inbox has just been blasted with viagra, travel, bingo, zoosk, payday loans offers. was the member deets list access or something cos i havent signed up to anything on this email address apart from fb steam origin xbox play oc3d etc. nothing else i only use this email for the bare essentials such like purchasing adn networking.

 

[B3rni3]

I got this too just there.

I will send on any details to you Sub.

 

[sg12004]

i got it too

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From:newsletter-owner@overclock3d.net on behalf of xxxxx.xxxxx (xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com) Sent:17 January 2013 18:53:35To: newsletter@overclock3d.net


I never subscribed to this - xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com


Too many newsletters? You can unsubscribe or better yet, schedule automatic cleanup.

 

[SieB]

I also got an email saying "I did not subscribe to this" from xxxxx.xxxxx

She did not say anything else, just "I did not subscribe to this" and her email.

 

[sNaKeBiTe69]

I got this email too.

 

[Dark NighT]

I had the email as well, blocked the adress from which it came, which has nothing to do with oc3d.

 

[Filekutter]

Phishing attack from forum !!!!! READ

HI all, firstly, though the origin of my example is the OC3D forums I do want to stress that this is NOT due to any actions or mistakes made by OC3D or its staff; its just what happens when there is a lot of activity on a forum.
Anyway, on to the meat of the issue.

I received this in my email today:
.............................................................................
xxxxx.xxxxx (xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com)
Schedule cleanup
11:48 AM

Groups, Newsletters
To: newsletter@overclock3d.net

I never subscribed to this - xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com
The subject line read: Unsubscribe
.....................................................................

First btw, I have never subscribed to anything/anyone, who knows of my OC3D acct. Okay you say, what makes this a phishing attack. Well, its easy. You just click the above link next to "I never subscribed to this", and boom, your email is not only confirmed but now added to a database. Simple and precise phishing attack.
So, you see this, or something like it.... whatever you DO... DO NOT CLICK to unsubscribe, let them think the email is a deadend.

And now back to our regular program.

 

[Josh Weston]

Merged your thread with this one, Filekutter.

Just a message to anyone that gets this email - do NOT click on any of the links.

 

[CallumB]

Also got this.

 

[tinytomlogan]

I think it was just a fuck up on the old email server of Jims.

Ill be moving everything this end because tbf Ive had enough of this now.


Apologies peeps and ill get it sorted.

 

[FTR.4500MHz]

Got it too, seems alot of us if not all of us are recieving this.