For those who have an account with TD.Ameritrade, check your email, you should have receive an email pumping the stock EQTD.PK Remember the broker was down last week? The hacker seems get the access to all accounts' information. How do I know? All of my client's email accounts got the same message. All those email accounts are opened only to use for TD.Ameritrade. All your ACH accounts, passwords are at risk too. Email TD.A ASAP!!!!!
We have received reports from some clients that a spam e-mail regarding information on the security EQTD.PK, has been targeted to an address they use with Ameritrade. This is not a result of Ameritrade sharing or selling any contact information, nor do we believe any information has been compromised. The cornerstone of our Privacy Statement is the commitment to keep our clients? personal information confidential. Ameritrade does not sell, license, lease or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third party for any reason, except as noted in the Privacy Statement. Several Spam methods do not depend on using purchased or intercepted lists of existing or valid e-mail accounts. Spammers also use known "brute forcing" or dictionary techniques. Brute forcing e-mails basically starts with something like a@doeinvestor.net, aa@doeinvestor.net, aaa@doeinvestor.net, aab@doeinvestor.net, abb@doeinvestor.net and continues on from there. Brute forcing basically generates and sends out an e-mail to every possible combination of characters/email addresses at any given domain. A dictionary e-mail spam basically uses all of the words that would be included in a dictionary or combinations of words which generally produce quite a few valid e-mail accounts. This type of method would not be inhibited by using a separate e-mail address for each business account you may have. We have identified the ISP that these e-mails originated from and our Legal Department has taken the appropriate action to address and prohibit further spam attempts. We have no reason to believe that any of our systems have been compromised. Ameritrade deploys state of the art firewalls, intrusion detection, anti - virus software as well as employs a full time staff of employee?s dedicated strictly to Information Security and protecting Ameritrade's systems from unauthorized access.
LIE LIE LIE I have 200+ email address. Only email address used with Ameritrade received this spam. FUCK TD Ameritrade.
I have been receiving gobs of SPAM since July 15th, 2006. I've had three accounts with them over the years and I use a separate email address for each of them @myowndomainname.com. All three of them started getting SPAM at the same time. I never ever even use those addresses for outgoing mail so it was not a dictionary hack or picked up by a forwarded message grabbed somewhere else. Ameritrade is lying. They either were hacked, or they sold our info. Murdog