Is this spam or missed opportunities?
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:02 am
Sorry if this is a long question, but I hope that you can help.
I have an account with a major UK ISP. With this I have an email address naturally - n.buxton"AT"tesco.net but I also have a secondary email address too
buxtons"AT"tesco.net
I have a website (on a different server than my ISP) and the secondary email address is only used from this website (you know – “email us for details or to place an order” sort of thing).
Now, I have no problem with my main email address but I get lots of strange emails to my “web” email address.
These contain only rectangles and weird symbols as the text. There are no attachments.
I have tried various encription codes, opening them in Notepad etc, all to no avail.
I’m not sure if they are spam or if they may be genuine emails placing orders for paintings or giving us feedback on the website.
We would hate to be missing out on anything, but gut feeling says they’re spam.
Does anyone else have this problem?
I used Panda for my virus protection but am sure that none of these emails contain viruses.
I’m really puzzled
I'd be grateful if a few of you over the next couple of days could go to our website (see below) choose a page at random and send me a quick email - perhaps title it "Z Test".
This should prove if it is an email problem or whether I'm just getting spammed.
Thanks everyone
I have an account with a major UK ISP. With this I have an email address naturally - n.buxton"AT"tesco.net but I also have a secondary email address too
buxtons"AT"tesco.net
I have a website (on a different server than my ISP) and the secondary email address is only used from this website (you know – “email us for details or to place an order” sort of thing).
Now, I have no problem with my main email address but I get lots of strange emails to my “web” email address.
These contain only rectangles and weird symbols as the text. There are no attachments.
I have tried various encription codes, opening them in Notepad etc, all to no avail.
I’m not sure if they are spam or if they may be genuine emails placing orders for paintings or giving us feedback on the website.
We would hate to be missing out on anything, but gut feeling says they’re spam.
Does anyone else have this problem?
I used Panda for my virus protection but am sure that none of these emails contain viruses.
I’m really puzzled
I'd be grateful if a few of you over the next couple of days could go to our website (see below) choose a page at random and send me a quick email - perhaps title it "Z Test".
This should prove if it is an email problem or whether I'm just getting spammed.
Thanks everyone