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General Community => Off-Topic => Topic started by: bobbylein on March 29, 2009, 03:45:26 PM

Title: Spam
Post by: bobbylein on March 29, 2009, 03:45:26 PM

A couple of months ago I signed up at this forum with a spamgourmet email address. With that email I got spam today. Someone wants me to transfer money. Does that mean you sell email addresses to spammers? Or did someone take advantage of a vulnerability in your forum software?

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: doc on March 29, 2009, 04:11:11 PM

Hi,

seems you have not "hidden" your mail address in your forum account (https://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php?action=profile;u=10753). This means your email address is public to anybody with a account to this forum.

Suggest to change your profile not to show your email address via profile options in the top.

Christian

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: bobbylein on March 29, 2009, 04:12:38 PM

Thanks. I didn't consider that possibility, because usually when you sign up somewhere the Email address is hidden.