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Jim Gurd
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join:2000-07-08
Livonia, MI

Jim Gurd

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Receiving random shared YouTube videos from random users

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Random spammed videos
Has anyone else been receiving these? I block the users, but they keep coming from different names. I don't know any of these users and don't know why they are sending them to me.

nwrickert
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL

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When the email is obviously spam (from the subject line and/or sender information), then I just junk it without reading. So I don't really know for sure. But I have had some subject lines similar to your list.

Jim Gurd
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join:2000-07-08
Livonia, MI

Jim Gurd

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said by nwrickert:

When the email is obviously spam (from the subject line and/or sender information), then I just junk it without reading.

This isn't the case here. The messages really are coming from YouTube. I see the shared videos in my YouTube inbox. I report them as spam within YouTube and block the users. They keep popping up with a different user name every time.

nwrickert
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL

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Okay, fair enough. As far as I know, I don't have a youtube inbox.

For sure, scamming is a growth industry. And I guess they will pop up wherever they can find an opportunity to defraud.

pcdebb
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Brandon, FL

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if you have a youtube account, you have an inbox.

WillRegSoon
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Been getting these too and I don't even have a YouTube account.

NormanS
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said by Jim Gurd:

Has anyone else been receiving these? I block the users, but they keep coming from different names. I don't know any of these users and don't know why they are sending them to me.

What are your YouTube account privacy setting?

Privacy settings.
NormanS

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said by WillRegSoon :

Been getting these too and I don't even have a YouTube account.

Do you have a Google Mail account? Google and YouTube are pretty intertwined.

nwrickert
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Geneva, IL

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said by pcdebb:

if you have a youtube account, you have an inbox.

Yes, I assumed that.

I have never signed up for a youtube account. But google does strange things, so maybe I have one by virtue of having a gmail account. But if I do have a youtube account, I don't currently know that.

WillRegSoon
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No, these come to a Yahoo account and occasionally even a Fastmail account.
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I have no relationship with anything Google (as far as I know).

NormanS
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said by WillRegSoon :

No, these come to a Yahoo account and occasionally even a Fastmail account.

So the headers look like these?
X-Apparently-To: **********@yahoo.com via 98.138.212.28; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:32:37 +0000
Return-Path: <3VaBFUwcLCkw125s3zCC2878ps.q20160wzzs5INCov22.q20@youtube.bounces.google.com>
Received-SPF: pass (domain of youtube.bounces.google.com designates 209.85.160.197 as permitted sender)
X-YMailISG: {Redacted.}
X-Originating-IP: [209.85.160.197]
Authentication-Results: mta1411.mail.gq1.yahoo.com  from=youtube.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig);  from=youtube.com; dkim=pass (ok)
Received: from 127.0.0.1  (EHLO mail-yk0-f197.google.com) (209.85.160.197)
  by mta1411.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTPS; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:32:37 +0000
Received: by mail-yk0-f197.google.com with SMTP id 19so5663701ykq.0
        for <**********@yahoo.com>; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: {Redacted.}
X-Received: by 10.236.159.99 with SMTP id r63mr5678392yhk.7.1397071957239;
        Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="===============0892462349=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?NormanS_sent_you_a_playlist=3A_=22Favorite_videos=22?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?_?=
From: YouTube <noreply@youtube.com>
To: **********@yahoo.com
Message-ID: <5345a055.639fec0a.2e4f.13c2.GMR@mx.google.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:32:37 -0700 (PDT)
Content-Length: 10064
Received: from 98.138.212.28 (98.138.212.28) by deli10239.mail.ne1.yahoo.com(98.138.31.63); Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:32:37 +0000
 

The "redacted" comment applies to random character strings. I mostly wanted to minimize the size of my post; they about doubled the character count without adding any useful, forensic data. I also modified my Google Identity in the Subject: line to match my DSLR persona.

I shared a YouTube playlist with my Yahoo! account. All that I can see from the headers, other than my name, as given in my Google/YouTube account, is that the email originated with Google. If you don't recognize the name in the Subject: line, maybe somebody you don't know is mistyping one of their friend's email address.

WillRegSoon
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Don't know, I just delete them.
WillRegSoon

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Got another one at Yahoo and this time looked at the headers. It appears to come from, or through, IMDB since it's 'from' (my ID there).
Tig
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Carrying Place, ON

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Just checked my inbox and I have a bunch. Also lots of different people seem to have "added me as a contact". Not sure why...