Namecheap sending SPAM???

[gamex]

A friend of mine says he has been getting spam from Namecheap lately, mostly about Viagra. Has anyone else gotten this lately?

He uses an email service called http://sneakemail.com/, where you sign up, and create email addresses for each site you register on. So he created an email address for Namecheap, and it gives him an email address like [email protected], which he enters on each site, then all mail sent to that address goes to his inbox. You only should use each email address for one serrvice. This way, if you receive spam, you can figure out which sneakemail it came from, then remove it from SneakEmail. He traced these spam messages back to NameCheap. Anyone else notice this?

 

[weblord]

:Imho: most probably not from namecheap but a forged header and from email, it happened to paypal and e-gold as well. namecheap is hosting an open relay that's for sure. tell your friend to just forward it to support of namecheap.com

http://dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=namecheap.com

 

[Jako]

I highly doubt NameCheap is sending him spam. If he signs up to NameCheap using that email and registers a domain, then that email will appear in the domain whois information. That whois email is then most likely being collected by the spammers. It has nothing to do with NameCheap

 

[edwinfelix]

Is he using the address for whois? I got tons of idiots sending E-mail to my whois about illegal software, fake watches, and illegal pharmacies.

 

[gamex]

Wow, totally forgot about the whois! That must be it. He doesnt have a whois guard. Ill let him know