dee740 wrote:
I've been receiving spam via my alias  email address from people looking through mm. I get stock infomation, people sending me emails about terminal illness (which always leads to giving them money), and fake overseas modeling requests. Who actually goes through a model's profile and says "I think I'll send her this new stock she should buy" or "She's a model, maybe she'll feel extra sorry about my esophogeal cancer". I mean what's really going on?

I'd worry if you start getting penile enlargement ads!

dee740 wrote:
I've been receiving spam via my alias  email address from people looking through mm. I get stock infomation, people sending me emails about terminal illness (which always leads to giving them money), and fake overseas modeling requests. Who actually goes through a model's profile and says "I think I'll send her this new stock she should buy" or "She's a model, maybe she'll feel extra sorry about my esophogeal cancer". I mean what's really going on?

I have experienced this, too.  I use the same address for everything so I had no way to be sure it was because of MM, but you said you have a seperate address for MM, so it must be true.  Maybe when we sign up for accounts here, our e-mail addresses are made public or given to someone? 
I get those stupid long, personal e-mails asking for money.  The first time I did was after signing up for an account here.
I had my SPAM filter set just perfectly before this and wasn't really getting any SPAM at all.. maybe like twice a week something would slip through.

Wynd Mulysa wrote:

Maybe when we sign up for accounts here, our e-mail addresses are made public or given to someone?

No your e-mails are not sold or given away on MM.

Dan  Hood  MM/Moderator wrote:
No your e-mails are not sold or given away on MM.

Well, do you have any guesses as to why people opening accounts here suddenly get SPAM like never before?
..My e-mail address is not displayed in my bio.  It was for about a week or so recently, but the SPAM started before then.

Wynd Mulysa wrote:
..My e-mail address is not displayed in my bio.  It was for about a week or so recently, but the SPAM started before then.

PK Digital Imaging wrote:
It's called looking through portfolios and just grabbing e-mail addresses from your profile.

PK Digital Imaging wrote:
IF MM were to be selling their e-mail list, you'd be getting a lot more spam about stuff OTHER than photography/model related issues.  You'd be hearing about viagra, this model so and so who has a webcam, stock tips, messages from Nigeria about some rich dude who is gonna die and needs someone to take his money, etc.

Did you actually read the OP or my first post?  We're getting e-mails like some of the ones you mentioned we'd be getting.  Not about photography/model related issues.

dee740 wrote:
I've been receiving spam via my alias  email address from people looking through mm. I get stock infomation, people sending me emails about terminal illness (which always leads to giving them money), and fake overseas modeling requests. Who actually goes through a model's profile and says "I think I'll send her this new stock she should buy" or "She's a model, maybe she'll feel extra sorry about my esophogeal cancer". I mean what's really going on?

ooooh, i get spam email, welcome!  so what?

complain about not working, nor enough model assignments.  geez!

Josie Nutter wrote:
Remember when the site got hacked ages ago?  I'm pretty sure the dude grabbed email addresses from the site.  Part of the reason I changed my throw-away account to a new one.  Haven't had any problems with it yet.

When did the site get hacked?  I didn't know about that.  I think it must have been before I joined.
So, I would like to restate:
My e-mail address is not displayed on my profile.
After signing up with MM, I started getting e-mails like this one:

Dear Sir/Madam, 
                   
I represent Oando Import and Export company Plc based in West Africa, Nigeria. My company markets and exports oil, gas and crude oil products.

We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our customers in Europe, America and Canada as well as making payments through you as our payment officer. It's upon this note that we seek your assistance to stand as our representative in your
country.

Note that, as our representative, you will receive 10% of whatever amount you clear for the company and the balance will be paid into an account We will avail to you. Please, to facilitate the conclusions of this transaction if accepted, do send me Promptly by email the following:

(1) Your full names,

(2) Full contact address,

(3) Sex,

(4) Occupation,

(5) Age,

(6) Phone/fax numbers.

Thank you for your time.

Your's Sincerly,

Mr. Emmanuel Adebayo.
Director, International Transaction, Oando Plc, Nigeria.
Head Office: Stallion House (8th-10th floor),
2, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

N/B:If interested please reply to:
Email: [email protected]

CLIENT WITH COMPANY ACCOUNT WILL BE GRANTED PREFERENCE

Christopher Ambler wrote:
I use challenge/response, and don't get spam in my inbox, period. And I post my email address all over the place. It's harvested like mad. My unfirmed queue gets at least 2000 spams per day. Two thousand. None of them reach me.

Oh, the humanity.

That still sucks cause all that crap is clogging and slowing down the net. There should be a "do not spam" thing like we have for phones.

Peter Dattolo wrote:
It is not from MM your getting all this "spam". On your front page you have a yahoo group and two web sites.

I uninstall all kinds of toolbars from computers when i work on them and the common ones are yahoo, google, aol, ask.jeeves, ask ect. ect. they all let unwanted stuff onto your computer. Your problem most likely is the yahoo group since posting it on the site here gives people access to that. You also might have your MM info on your yahoo page as well and that is where they get all the info they need to send the spam to you.

The yahoo accounts are well known places to get emails, names ect for spamming. Remove the yahoo group from here and remove the mm info from the yahoo account and it will go away eventualy.

But I'm getting it, too.