increase of Spam form whois source

[DaveN]

Has anyone else noticed the large amount of spam emails comming from whois data recently.

DaveN

[Goober]

Howdy,

How would we be able to tell?

Goober

ps. sorry for the newbie question, but unless the email was a solicitation I wouldn't know.

[Sanenet]

By spam emails going to your WHOIS email address when you don't use it for anything else.

And yes, I recently noticed this too. Had to change one address, it hasn't been picked up yet.

[maccas]

Yeah, all seem to be from the same person/company. "How do you tell", the email address I use for domain name contact is only used for that purpose.

[chadmg]

Yes. It is steadily increasing. At first it seemed to be just one guy/company spamming me like 5 times a day. Now it's a lot more people. The problem is it just happens to be an account with my least effective spam filter.

[Goober]

Thank you

[TheDoctor]

I've had snail mail spam coming to my whois address as well. Some sort of phoney invoice scam.