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Bruce Andrews, great sleuthing.

Both your posts will help others, cheers.

Thank you,

With the Canadian Pharmacy one I got again recently, I knew not to click anything in the email. But, I did mouseover the fake unsubscribe link and the other two. All three went to a website that I knew would the the pharmacy site. So instead I did a “whois” on the url.

I got some email addresses for the owner and the tech, both fake. I got the email of the “host” and went straight to the site of the host to have a look. It’s a forum in Chinese. And the emails for the owner and tech were from a Polish ghetto site.

Go figure

Basically readers, as far as I know, MSN never send emails with Featured Offers, so if you get one, don’t even open it, just delete it.

As for having spam sent using your own email address, nothing to be done about it because as you can see, you can’t get the buggers real details.

My thanks to you for your time and work in creating and maintaining this website. Thanks also to those who post here.

I receive the same spam that uses my address and claims to be related to MSN featured offers. Some time ago I created a filter for any mail from me@my address; that helped, but it also meant that I had to dig legitimate messages I sent or forwarded to myself out of the ‘deleted’ pile. Not a good solution.

Today I received yet another ‘MSN special offer’ email. After debating whether or not to click on ‘unsubscribe’, I decided not to. Instead I did a search on “MSN featured offers” and found this site.

Posts and replies here gave me a quick education about the ‘special offers’ set up, and Ron’s message about setting up a mail rule showed me exactly what I needed to do to keep those blasted emails out of my inbox.

I’m delighted and relieved to find a solution – and grateful to have found Certifiedbug.com!

Thanks to all -

There really isn’t much more that can be said to add to the advice and comments already given above, or in the other articles about spam and how to avoid/filter it.

Someone should probably take a look at the system, you can go to one of the free help forums where a trained malware removal volunteer will assist you. Registration in order to post is free also.

I have a short list in the right side column here.

An analyst will advise you and set your mind at ease.

Cheers.

There are a lot of comments in this thread, please read them, especially the advice to ‘never’ click on unsubscribe in spam email.