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09-17-2010, 09:21 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2009 Location: internet@ctivist.com
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/warnings-and-alerts/677678-someone-squatting-gmail-addresses-using-domainers.html I understand your concern. I understand that there is a benefit to controlling your identity. I agree that you should get the main sites as much as possible. But the internet is one giant mesh of hundreds of namespaces that you can't control. Admittedly gmail is a popular and large one. But there are more effective ways to scam as you and I think that the level of concern is higher than warranted. It's an opinion  DU.
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09-18-2010, 01:53 AM
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| NamePros Member Join Date: Mar 2010
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| those are used for spamming, not scamming people in low-wage countries create gmail/yahoo/hotmail accounts (semi)manually, then those emails accounts are sold in bulk to spammers those screennames are harvested on the forums or wherever by bots because they have a higher value than names with random letters and numbers
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09-18-2010, 09:40 AM
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 For anyone interested I found 5 more Domainer User IDs taken in gmail accounts by the same person using the Recovery email address I discovered earlier: ••••••@h••••••.com The 5 are: Seven Mile (Frank Schilling) Fusible DNJournal (Ron Jackson) Abel Arif Domain Name News (Frank Michlick) -- -- Password assistance for sevenmile@gmail.com ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=677678 How can Google contact you about recovering your account? Email to ••••••@h••••••.com -- Password assistance for fusible@gmail.com How can Google contact you about recovering your account? Email to ••••••@h••••••.com -- Password assistance for DNJournal@gmail.com How can Google contact you about recovering your account? Email to ••••••@h••••••.com -- Password assistance for ArbelArif@gmail.com How can Google contact you about recovering your account? Email to ••••••@h••••••.com -- Password assistance for DomainNameNews@gmail.com How can Google contact you about recovering your account? Email to ••••••@h••••••.com -- | ||||
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09-18-2010, 11:22 AM
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09-18-2010, 11:27 AM
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| NamePros Member Join Date: Aug 2010
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| Only amateurs use free webmail email accounts. I can't recall a domainer ever emailing me from anything other than a domain based email. Simply seeing @gmail.com would be a red flag that the person I was dealing with was, at best, inexperienced. |
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09-18-2010, 12:55 PM
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=677678 * Domainers understand this, but an end user not familiar with the industry might not be aware. I have sold domains to end users using gmail, but now I have changed my sales email address to a domain-based email. I did do a search on my User ID gmail and found nothing suspicious. defaultuser, I realize that we can't wield significant control over the internet, nor would I want to try; however, warranted or not, gmail is respected by a lot of people, and I just believe that due dilligence is required, perhaps a once-a-month search on the user name. Yahoo! and Hotmail/Live must be considered less desirable because I was able to secure these addresses. *
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09-18-2010, 01:21 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: London, UK
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| My username is my first name used by hundreds of people on the Internet. So it was long gone before I started domaining. However I checked my website name and it is taken: I took two screenshots: http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/9344/email.gif http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3645/secquestion.gif The recovery email is this: ******@w********.lv The .lv extension isn't so common. Maybe this could be a new clue to find this person. |
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09-19-2010, 06:56 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006
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  | hey guys, I use an email from my domain, so this didn't bother this much. I think that a reasonable possibility is that some people simply create huge amounts of gmail accounts and scraped a list of usernames from some forums or other sites. The 'h' likely belongs to hotmail.com so it's also possible that these belong to different accounts. It does make sense to use a hotmail account as a backup for gmail. The more sinister possibility is also very likely though
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