[noreply] what is it? Closed

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Hello, I receive emails from addresses that start with "noreply@..." Do you know what that means? Thank you

noreply · Accepted Answer

Are these comments a joke?

No Reply = No Response

An email address is broken down as follows: name@domainname.tld
The name is randomly set based on the user. Generally, "noreply" is used as the username to specify that you MUST NOT respond. It usually involves notifications (from a turn-based game server, for example) or poorly designed mailing lists.

To find out which site it comes from, you need to look at the domain name, not the username.

In no case can you be charged to your account by replying (in this case, you have entered your credit card number or you have a security problem). If your bank refuses to block the transfer even though you have not provided your card number, then it is itself violating the law. If the site charges you immediately, you need to send a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt. There is a withdrawal period of 7 days from any purchase (and you can prove the non-use of the service through the logs 1/ from their server, 2/ from the provider). If the site refuses, I advise you to contact a consumer association. In any case, a promotional email is most of the time good to throw in the trash.

As for Liloue's question about voluntary registration, it is an infringement of advertising law and the opt-in rules often used by unscrupulous spammers.

Rodolphe_ · Answer

Hello, that means they don't expect any response in return. noreply for "no response", if you click on it to reply your email will go nowhere.

dom · Answer

Hello, no-reply corresponds to the job search Liege emploi dom.

michel.baux · Answer

I placed an order for a Tomtom product, but since I was not delivered due to my absence, I was unable to contact Tomtom because of a lack of address.

val13 · Answer

Attention !!! noreply@ is a payment site linked to a porn site: they offer you 30 minutes of free downloads and then, if you are "won over," and if you happen to exceed the 30 minutes, even without downloading, just looking for HOW to watch (impossible to find), well... they will DEBIT YOU WITHIN 20 SECONDS €49.95 !!!! you can believe me, I have experienced it, and on top of that, I had no recourse with my bank since the company is based, of course, in ITALY, where it is almost impossible to spot abuses and fraud: do like me: as soon as you receive a message starting with "noreply," put it in "forbidden mail": WARNING! THEY HAVE HUNDREDS OF ADDRESSES!!! The only thing they change is the first name or the word after "noreply." A WORD TO THE WISE!!!!
BELIEVE ME, I ENJOY GIVING THEM FREE ADVERTISING, I WAS STRIPPED OF €50.00 IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS !!!!

liloue1778 · Answer

Hello,
I noticed that at the bottom of the email from "noreply", there is a click option for "unsubscribe" where you enter your email, and supposedly that’s it for receiving these emails.
Does this mean that there must have been a voluntary subscription?
Thank you!
Liloue

noreply et un jeu en ligne · Answer

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myosotis66598 · Answer

Hello,
I'm facing the same problem with the noreply address. My friends are emailing me, and it keeps bouncing back as mail. How can we get out of this mess? It's a real nightmare, believe me. I've also been charged 55 euros by these damn idiots.

JOELLE · Answer

Oulala, with what you're writing, I'm worried. I signed up on a site, aujardin.info, apparently managed by a noreply.
I hope I haven't made a mistake, but I didn't give my credit card number....
Can you give me more information if you have any regarding aujardin.info? Thank you in advance.

vale13380 · Answer

I deeply thank you for your comments. Some are unwarranted, because if we had known that "entering your credit card number meant that we would be charged automatically, we wouldn't have been so many to fall for it!!!! But it's true that there are brains bigger than ours that recognize ALL THE TRAPS EVEN BEFORE TESTING THEM!!!! Sorry to disappoint you, SIR (OR madam) but there are still people who believe in the truth and who do not see evil everywhere! Please understand that if we had suspected there was a scam, we wouldn't have given our numbers.... No, I believe that the half-wits are those who think they will NEVER BE FOOLED!!! To the wise...

noreply · Answer

vale13380, to verify your identity please enter your credit card number: ___ ____ ____ ____

Wake up children!!!

PS: -constructive element- if you receive an email from your bank asking you to verify your bank account or code ... Do NOT click ...

Noreplyyyyyy · Answer

This thread is too amazing, I had to be here!  PS: val13, for your €50, write that we settle this problem amicably!

neo123 · Answer

Hello

either these comments are premeditated, or...

noreply = no reply, it's English, which means: no response, which signifies that the site that sent you this message does not expect you to reply to this email, and even if you do, it won't lead anywhere, since no one is going to read it.

an email with noreply@..... generally confirms a registration on a site. it is often accompanied by a phrase indicating that there’s no need to reply to this email because no one is going to read it anyway.

so ladies and gentlemen, stop stressing, if you've been scammed out of money, it’s not because of this email, but mainly because you click everywhere, and you write your credit card number all over the place.

another thing, when you need to give your credit card number, check that it’s a secure site. how? it’s simple, most reputable sites will redirect you to an address starting with: https:// and not http://. check with your bank's website, otherwise change banks quickly :p

have a great day everyone.

neo

-_- · Answer

Noreply is just a way to tell people that they should not reply to this address
because no one reads it,
there is usually a link to contact them

Beware of scams, however
Here are some basic security rules
-Never give your credit card number to a site that is not trustworthy, eBay or Amazon is fine, p0rn c3nter No. It’s a scam for sure
-Never give your banking or eBay account details for example in response to a request by email even if it seems to come from the bank, it’s a well-known scam, it’s enough to create a fake site to gain access to the bank accounts of many people
-Install a spam filter: Thunderbird has a very effective one.
-Do not use Outlook, it’s a virus nest
-Don’t believe everything you are sent, and never forward chain messages that are often scams
-When spammers offer you to unsubscribe, they are generally lying and thus know that someone reads the email address in question, so they can sell it for a higher price

Last advice, have multiple email addresses
- One personal email and one professional email.
- A junk email that will serve for sites that ask for your email address without you being confident, if you don’t trust, don’t hesitate to use services like jetable.net

Finally, a bit of common sense and caution is enough to avoid most scams.
- A credit card number is used to pay, not to check identity
- Your bank can access your account, it will not ask for your details
- Do not follow links received in spam, do not reply to spammers
- The internet is like TF1, just because it says so doesn't mean it's true!!!

noreply l'arnaqueur lol · Answer

In a few posts, we go from Alice in Wonderland to Boulet-land and then to the harsh reality!!! This thread is so good!!!  The most important thing to do when signing up on a website is to ask yourself whether you should use your real email address.  - If the site is truly, truly trustworthy, use your real email. - If the site needs to send you a code after registration or something like that, use the site https://jetable.org/en/index it will create an email address that forwards everything it receives to your real address for a predetermined period (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week...) - Otherwise, just put anything: aaaa@bbbbb.com always works  And especially never give your banking details unless to validate a purchase on a trustworthy site!!!  ++

alf · Answer

For those who respond in a haughty and/or mocking manner: just because you believe you'll never be taken in doesn't mean you should openly mock those who haven't had your Superior Intelligence. Those who know should rather teach those who do not know than mock them, shouldn't they?

As for the question of "noreply@...", some elements of response have been given above, but since I can't find the complete explanations, I allow myself to add a little more, hoping that those who read me will understand better (what follows might seem long, I apologize if I ramble too much).

Every email address takes the form "truc.muche@monsite.fr", which designates the account "truc.muche" managed by the site "monsite.fr". Your Internet service provider has surely provided you with addresses of the type "françois.dupond@free.fr", "justine.dupont@orange.com" or others.

The first part, which designates the account, may not be directly associated with a person: the address "admin@monsite.fr" can allow sending an email to the administrator of a website, for instance, to report a problem without providing their name to everyone, or "groupe-vtt-dordogne@yahoo.com" can refer to a mailing list to which several people are subscribed to discussion a topic of particular interest. There are also purely "technical" email accounts that no one directly uses, but which are managed by programs, for example, to manage registrations on a website, to automatically send commercial information...

In particular, when sending an email automatically, and not expecting a response, one can use an address called "noreply@monsite.fr". "No reply" means "no response" and is an indirect indication that a response is not desired, and that if someone tries to reply, no one will read their message. Generally, those who send such messages include in small print at the bottom that one should not reply directly to this email and indicate how to contact the individuals who originated the email (but I acknowledge that we rarely read the fine print, and sometimes it doesn't appear). Using a "noreply@monsite.fr" address is in no way an obligation, and does not necessarily mean that no one will read the email; it is just an extremely common practice on the internet.

As for banking scams: it must be recognized that the internet is filled with dishonest people. There are many interesting individuals, honest commercial websites, and warm, open discussion spaces, but there are also con artists, mafiosos, and petty thieves. In short, it’s like real life when you go out on the street. Except that, on the internet, you don’t always immediately see who is honest and who is not. A nice-looking website could be created by a company seeking clients or by a bogus company, while in real life, we usually distinguish between a legitimate store and a postal address in the Maldives, or between the Champs Elysées and a slum backyard.

There is no golden rule of the internet stating that one must be wary, that one should never trust anyone, that everyone is a potential terrorist/pirate/thief. It’s just about applying common sense rules and, when in doubt, stopping before taking risks. Among other things, this means not giving your credit card number on a site you don’t trust (personally, aside from checking my accounts on my bank's website, SNCF, and 2 or 3 other sites I know well, I don’t make any online payments), not following links received in emails from people you don't know, and not believing all the ads that come your way...

The list may seem long, but it generally comes down to "common sense". I acknowledge that when you are new to the internet, this "common sense" is not necessarily obvious... But it eventually sinks in. Always check, when giving an identifier or password, or a credit card number, that the site uses a secure connection (address starting with "https://" rather than "http://", note the additional "s").

Moreover, as mentioned above, you should NEVER reply to an email from your bank/eBay/PayPal or anything else that asks you to log in to verify your identity: these are fake emails, and the address written in the email, which you might be tempted to click, is surely that of a bogus site that will merely copy your identifier/credit card number for itself. A bank will NEVER send an email to one of its clients to verify their identifiers. eBay won’t either. No legitimate site would do that. Even if they claim that due to a minor technical incident, they need to check that your account is functioning well and ask you to log in "just to verify", don't do it. Send that email straight to the trash and don't think about it anymore (there's no need to report it to anyone; unfortunately, it wouldn't help). (If you want to learn more, the English term for this type of scam is "phishing", it should be on Wikipedia, I think)

We could list many more tips of this kind, but this message would end up being really very long...

gimlith · Answer

Incredible, simply incredible!! It’s only by reading this thread that I realize how profitable spamming can be. Honestly, I didn’t understand or no longer understood the usefulness of spam since people throw away everything that doesn’t come from a known sender. Well no, it’s still possible; if we send an email with a “click on this link, I’m a friend of yours,” it’s still possible to make them pay under silly pretenses.  I will soon open a website where you will need to provide your credit card number to verify that you actually have a keyboard, just in case ...

noreply · Answer

A big thank you to everyone who kindly topped up my bank account.

DaRkiLLeR · Answer

A noob topic, basically...  Honestly, the first one to reply has done it right, no need to beat around the bush for an hour :)  No reply, then you don't respond :)

vale13380 · Answer

A big thank you to all those who took us for "NET IDIOTS" (if you only knew...). Of course, I gave my credit card number, as it was stated that I was entitled to 30 minutes of free download: indeed, it took me 40 minutes to find the way to the free download... Certainly, I consider myself to have been SCAMMED because I DOWNLOADED NOTHING!
To all those who respond that it's a joke or who think they're intellectually superior: I wish you one thing: that this never happens to you! I'm not a novice on the net; I've already given my credit card numbers to websites (porn or not, that's none of your business!) but I have never been SCAMMED in this way: I know how to read a contract and when it says "AFTER 30 MINUTES OF DOWNLOAD YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CONSIDERED AS SUBSCRIBED AND WILL BE CHARGED THE STATED AMOUNT TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY OUR MOVIES FOR 30 DAYS" In my opinion, some of you don't know how to read: to those I say: no need for your responses. As for the others, if you can't tell the difference between a BIG SCAM and a judgment error, I say the same, we don't need your opinions, we've already had them! :!!!! but do you really think you have such superior intelligence??? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT ARROGANCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "LET THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER SINNED CAST THE FIRST STONE"
From now on, only respond if you've had a problem: if it's to give moral lessons or say that we are stupid, I inform you that YOU ARE JUST AS MUCH AS WE ARE, AT LEAST FOR HAVING RESPONDED IN THIS WAY TO OUR QUESTIONS.
TO GOOD (OR BAD) HEARERS...........................

Ahahah · Answer

Honestly, it's almost parodic.

For those still looking for advice here, here's mine:

- Don't try to learn/understand the internet on your own.

The internet is full of dangers for the uninitiated. Some aren't really dangers, while others are. Some concern you, others do not. But there are so many that it's impossible to list them all. New ones come up every month.
Recognizing all these dangers is very difficult.

On the road, you need experience before you know where danger might come from at any moment. The same goes for the internet. Know that some are convinced that a license should be required to use the internet for this kind of reason. Many novice behaviors are partly responsible for problems on the net, just like on the road.

When you're surfing the web, start by having someone proficient next to you (one of the problems is that it's hard to know if they are competent...). Get someone who is frank enough to point out your mistakes multiple times, because you will make them. They will explain your mistakes to you. When you encounter something new, don't be overconfident, ask them. If, with all the information you provide, they still don't know what it is, they are incompetent.

noreply · Answer

The pages https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9tiquette and http://www.sri.ucl.ac.be/SRI/rfc1855.fr.html describe some net customs (notably not writing in capital letters).  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing (or phishing) will provide additional information, for example, a link such as https://www.clubic.com/actualite-33011-nouvelle-attaque-de-phishing-pour-bnp-paribas.html giving a concrete example. It only takes being fooled once to be a bit wary (as mentioned above, it becomes "common sense" even if it may not seem obvious at first).  And otherwise, there is always IRL help that can prove useful, for example, LUGs https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_d%27utilisateurs_Linux or simply the local cybercafé where knowledgeable users can likely help. The Wikipedia reflex can also be very helpful, for example for the definition of IRL https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRL  Happy reading.

Le tueur de boulet · Answer

The democratization of computing is really a bad thing, sorry for my elitism, but this topic confirms that we should have never let computers into the hands of those lacking intelligence. No more silly behavior, less spam due to zombie PCs, fewer stupid chains, less Flash, fewer dull websites made with FrontPage, and a less dominant Microsoft monopoly...
Do a good deed for humanity: sell your PCs, and leave computing to those who know, you'll contribute to a healthier computing and internet world.
Thank you in advance,

L'idiotie caractérisée · Answer

Being an idiot, madame val, isn't about being taken advantage of. It can happen to anyone to get scammed (even though common sense and caution dictate being careful when giving out your banking details, but never mind).  What's foolish is coming here to say that "noreply" emails are dangerous, that they steal your money. When you don't know something well, you avoid saying nonsense whenever possible, especially since the users of commentcamarche.net expect well-informed people to respond to them.   In short, feel free to get scammed as much as you want, report scams if you like, but avoid shouting nonsensical technicalities like this noreply story everywhere. Protecting people from scams is good. Spreading nonsense because you don't understand is not.

harko · Answer

I was also fooled by downloading 2girls 1cup [:sadnoir]

vale13380 · Answer

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and again..... thank you !!!! We care about our spelling mistakes, our capital letters, our lowercase letters, but certainly not about the problem we are presenting to you.... Too bad, I thought I would find a supportive community against scams and I realize that I have fallen into a trap !!!!! I am being insulted, called an idiot, an imbecile, along with those who have had the same problem as me... It's very pleasant to realize that in fact YOU ALL DEFEND THE SCAMMER AND NOT THE SCAMS... HATS OFF, gentlemen, truly .... AND I APOLOGIZE TO THE ONE WHOSE CAPITAL LETTERS HURT THE EYES! WHAT HURTS MY EYES IS YOUR HAUGHTY RESPONSES AS IF YOU HELD THE TRUTH AND THAT YOU HAVE NEVER FALLEN INTO A TRAP.... BUT DON'T SHOUT VICTORY.... the traps come when you least expect them... Thank you anyway for your "advice"! Nice community you have, VERY VERY NICE !!!!!

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