HollywoodPoker sells e-mails

[LouisCyphre]

I have been getting those annoying emails for a while now to the same address that I have signed up with at Hollywood.
I use this address for more than one site so I could never pinpoint the leak. Looks like HP is the prime suspect.
I have been very selective in choosing what I use this address for and it has been 100% spam free for years. Then TowerGaming came along...
Does anyone else get any viagra emails? Those were added to the mix recently.

[WhatDoesCallMean]

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IMO Tower is pretty rogue to begin with. All of this affiliate spam and associations with sites cyber squatting long term legit sites. Not the type of people I would be doing business with.

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despite their very attractive bonus offers over the past few months(both before and after the points change), i refuse to sign up to them for precisely the above reasons.

[Quadkiller]

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>Received: from ns1.mypremiumhosting.com (ns1.mypremiumhosting.com [64.239.3.185])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 34si4755445agc.2007.05.05.12.45.26;
Sat, 05 May 2007 12:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of mailer@ns1.mypremiumhosting.com designates 64.239.3.185 as permitted sender)
Received: (from mailer@localhost)
by ns1.mypremiumhosting.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l45JjQi31764;
Sat, 5 May 2007 15:45:26 -0400 </pre><hr />

When you look at the headers in the mails they all come from ns1.mypremiumhosting.com (64.239.3.185).

If you go to www.mypremiumhosting.com you see that a apache server is set up on the domain and it's no hosting company, probably a private server.

Whois on the domain (http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d...ng&amp;tld=com)
doesn't tell you that much either.

Domain was created last year -&gt; Creation Date: 19-sep-2006
The domain is registred on www.godaddy.com
Registrant &amp; Contact is hidden with www.domainsbyproxy.com service

Maybe a email would make godaddy revoke their domain, but probably they don't even care. But still, how the [censored] did they get get our emails and names in the first place? Sent an email to HWP linking to this thread and I was told they would forward it to the right department and then contact me

[Bobo Fett]

Any chance Hollywood owns Tower?

[Quadkiller]

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Any chance Hollywood owns Tower?

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Dunno about that can't find any information about HWP or towergaming company on their website.

Received response from HWP also...
Their solution to this is that I should email the spammer and ask where they did get my information? right...


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Thank you for contacting Hollywood Poker support.

I'm sorry to hear that you encountered problem regarding your information is leaked to a third party but I will have to stress to you that we, Hollywoodpoker.com takes players security and privacy very seriously and would never sell player information. We have no idea how it happened in the first place but it is best that you refer to the source as how they received your information regarding this matter.

Again, I'm sorry that you feel Hollywoodpoker.com is liable in this matter but we're not. I hope you will be able to contact the source regarding this issue to clarify the situation.

Should you have any further queries, do not hesitate to contact us.

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[benedetti]

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Any chance Hollywood owns Tower?

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Hummm. I just found out that their IP location is the same, both sites are hosted by Potected.ca in Montreal.

[Bobo Fett]

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Any chance Hollywood owns Tower?

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Hummm. I just found out that their IP location is the same, both sites are hosted by Potected.ca in Montreal.

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And notice all of their denials are only related to selling our email addresses. They never say that THEY are not sending the emails themselves.

[Pokeraddict]

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Any chance Hollywood owns Tower?

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Hummm. I just found out that their IP location is the same, both sites are hosted by Potected.ca in Montreal.

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Interesting. Where is the HP rep now?

[DoGGz]

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Any chance Hollywood owns Tower?

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Hummm. I just found out that their IP location is the same, both sites are hosted by Potected.ca in Montreal.

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Interesting. Where is the HP rep now?

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He won't come back because his job is to deflect and distract. There's nothing he can do to defend this thread that he hasn't already done. Better to ignore then acknowledge.

[benedetti]

Not very important, but I made a little mistake. The company that hosts both sites is Protected.ca, not Potected.ca as I wrote.