[maxintosh]

What can I do about this?

This website, ezgear4u, has posted my full contact information. I have no idea how on earth they got it in the first place, but the amount of spam I am receiving now is outrageous.

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[Big Mac]

Have you bought iPod accessories from them? Call them up and demand that they remove your personal information.

[Zeeb]

Wow, that's completely unacceptable. I'm not buying anything from them.

Sorry this happened to you, but you might want to take down the link you provided here--spammers come here from time to time and could cut and paste all this info.

[Mithras]

Hey -- you're across the street from me!

[zro]

What a scumbag thing to do. Apparently that's actually AudioOutfitters.

Who seem to like plastering the BBB banner all over their site. They're even "Hacker Safe."

Here's their whois:


Registrant:
AudioOutfitters, LLC
415 E Sandy Woods Lane
Midvale, UT 84047
US

Domain name: AUDIO-OUTFITTERS.COM

Administrative Contact:
Bernstein, Charlie [email protected]
415 E Sandy Woods Lane
Midvale, UT 84047
US
801 562 2288 Fax: 801 562 1345

Technical Contact:
Manager, Domain [email protected]
2800 28th Street Suite 205
Santa Monica, California 90405
US
+1.8885114678 Fax: +1.3103141610

Registration Service Provider:
iPowerWeb, [email protected]
888 511 4678
602-307-5438 (fax)

[maxintosh]

Thanks for the tips guys.

[besson3c]

This is a security issue. The site should be shut down immediately until this can be corrected, period.

Be aggressive! Go after the owner of the IP block, DNS, domain registrar, postmaster@ and root@, the addresses listed in their whois, hosting ISP, whomever will listen to you. This needs to be corrected yesterday.

[mduell]

As besson said, start sending complaint emails to anyone and everyone. Follow them up with certified snail mail.

Gmail has very effective spam filters... I'd think about opening an account and using it to check your other POP/IMAP accounts.

[maxintosh]

I have Gmail and it catches a large chunk of it but a few are slipping through daily.

The email to the owner bounced but I left a phone message and complained to the local BBB (of which they are a member... wtf)

[Chuckit]

I get something like 100 spam mails a day on my Yahoo account, but it catches 99.9% of them (i.e., one slips through every couple of weeks). So getting your host to use decent spam protection is really a good idea, though I'd still nail the ezgear4u folks to the wall.

[MrForgetable]

I get about 800 spam mails a day, and about 40 get through to my inbox a day. All newsletters. Someone or a machine decided that it would be funny to sign me up for every newsletter on the internet. So at first it wasn't "spam," it went all to my inbox. I got 1300 new messages in my inbox on the first day of this attack. I've set Gmail to trash everything except University names that I applied to and spam still gets in. Hate it.

[ghporter]

Contact the Attorneys General in Utah and California and report the unauthorized release of your personal information. (Administrative contact in Midvale, UT, technical contact in Santa Monica, CA) Someone is costing you bandwidth and potentially setting you up for identity theft, and those are both unethical and illegal.

[Buckaroo]

Where on their site are they showing contact information? More important, what I'm really trying to find out, are they showing all customers, or all visitors or what? Why are they showing your contact information and not someone elses, or are they showing many people.

If it's just yours, I don't need to see it. I would be interested in finding out WHY they are showing just your contact information.

What my concern is, is it something we all need to be careful about. What did you do to get on their site.

[jokell82]

It was a very long list of contact information, not just the OP.

[maxintosh]

The file was removed and the president of the company wrote me an apology...

[Mithras]

How did you stumble across it? A google search?

[maxintosh]

Another person on the list sent out a mass e-mail about it.

[jokell82]

Originally Posted by maxintosh 

The file was removed and the president of the company wrote me an apology...

Any explanation as to why it was there in the first place?

[brokenjago]

I would demand eight billion dollars in compensation for emotional abuse.