A while back I posted the alternate e-mail address I used when signing up for netflix, in order to let people know where to send their friend invitations.
Well, it looks like the screen scraper spammers have been hard at work, because ever since that post I’ve been getting a steady stream of e-mails from “paypal”, “amazon”, etc. asking me to “update my account” (meaning give them my password), along with the other usual spam-like messages.
Luckily, I only use this particular address for netflix, so I can just have my spam filter trash any messages to that address that don’t come from netflix, which is why I did it that way.
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On a semi-related note, I’m also getting several invites from within netflix from people I’ve never heard of before (unless their names are just slipping my mind). I’m not sure I get the point of asking people you don’t even know to be your netflix friends; maybe they thought they were on myspace or something…
in case anyone is wondering, my email address is nstryker@gmail.com
Oh, no!
This is kind of funny. I never have bought into the whole “trying to hide your e-mail address on the web” thing, (and I still don’t). As long as you’ve got a decent spam filter (configured well) it’s not a big problem.
yup, i feel the same way about laws.
How so?
if there were no laws, 90% of people would be generally decent to one another. it’s just because of those 10% that laws exist. the problem is that having laws gives the legislating group the ability to control people’s behavior even more than is necessary. so 10% of people end up wasting unfathomable amounts of resources as well as causing needless legislation which limits liberty (like drug enforcement laws).
similarly, people hide their email address, making contacting people a huge pain in many cases, all because the spammers can’t just be nice.
tangent? very yes.
Got it.