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Originally Posted by Watchman
interestingly, the same is happening to me.
I have never used my ntl email address either.
this appears to have started in the last couple of weeks or so.
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Porn spam pointing at voila.fr sites, by any chance? I strongly suspect that spammers have got access to lists of valid NTL addies in the last month or so. The reason I think this is that for the last year my most effective anti-spam tactic has been a delete-on-server rule for anything with a similar addy to mine in the to/CC field. (It currently has about 300 adresses on it, which gives you an idea of the amount of spam hitting ntl's mail servers.)
Suddenly mountains of spam have been getting through that with new addies in those fields. Normally I'd just suspect a new "millions" CD had come out - but this has all been coming from the same source, and I'm seeing anecdotal evidence that the addies can't have been harvested. So I suspect an inside job, a la AOL.