So you’re probably thinking what the heck? Well let me tell you a little story….
I’ve had Vonage for a while (coming up to three years now) and I’ve been really happy with them. The only sucky thing was that I couldn’t use it like a land-line…but a little clever thinking overcame that quite easily. So recently I purchased another domain name for my family so we could stay in touch with each other and have the same e-mail and what not. Well I figured I might as well make the most of it and changed certain services that require e-mail addresses to go to specific e-mail accounts. (I got the idea from from RFC 2821 and RFC 2822 In simple language read the wiki.) So after doing this everything was nice because I had nicely setup rules and what not to sort the e-mail based on where the e-mail was sent. So all went well for a month or so and then recently BOOM! spam galore hits my Vonage e-mail address. I mean from cheap software retailers to the incredible weight-loss programs! So I figured okay maybe there might be a directory harvest attack and that’s how “they” got the e-mail addresses, but none of the other e-mail accounts were effected. The only e-mail address that receives SPAM is the Vonage account.
Now I’m not saying Vonage intentionally sends SPAM or sells the e-mail addresses, all I’m saying is that if no one else besides me, my e-mail server, and Vonage have this e-mail address then exactly where did it come from? I know I didn’t give it to any SPAMMERS. I know my e-mail server wasn’t harvested…so I guess that just leaves Vonage…but I’m pretty sure they didn’t purposely did do it.
Thinking of it more as I write this post there’s only one more thing I can possibly think of…and not to add fuel to the fire of outsourcing (which I have mixed feelings about mostly for) is India. So roughly three weeks ago my Vonage phone adapter went a little cookoo so I had to replace it. So now I could purchase one from Vonage or just pick one of the retail ones and activate it. So seeing that the retail route was the cheaper way to go, I went with the retail phone adapter. After purchasing the retail box I needed to call Vonage (which kind of sucks if you don’t have another phone to call from…kinda dumb…but that’s another story) to activate the retail box. So when I called them the call was routed to India and of they verified my information and asked for my account e-mail at which point I gave them. Now after this is the only instance that someone other than a computer and myself knows this e-mail address. A little far fetched…sure it might be because honestly I’m sure the Vonage representative has better things to do than sit and and write down customer’s e-mail addresses and then turn around and sell them.
Yeah I know it’s crazy….so I’m still a little puzzled as to how this happened…What do you guys think? Is it a conspiracy by the international workers against Americans 
? Or maybe there’s just a leak in the Vonage database? OR perhaps I just have way to much time on my hands to think of such things…:lol:
