Spam generated from this site?
09-16-2011, 07:19 AM
#21
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Durham, NC
Posts: 851
I am super careful about this privacy issue and so far so good. I am on this forum too much, so if they were gonna "get" me, it would have happened by now. LOL!
Note: My time is never wasted here. I have saved a bundle and garnered some wonderful ideas as well as timesavers!
Just MHO. . .
Note: My time is never wasted here. I have saved a bundle and garnered some wonderful ideas as well as timesavers!
Just MHO. . .
09-16-2011, 07:27 AM
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 708
My personal email was hacked. I fixed it with a password change and by logging off when I wasn't actually reading my mail. The only place I have let my email be known is in personal messages here. So it is not out of the question in my opinion.
09-16-2011, 08:01 AM
#23
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Southeast Wisconsin
Posts: 1,070
Most of this stuff comes from people's email which has been hacked. The contacts are copied and sent all kinds of stuff.
Do you know the sender? Never open an email from someone you do not know. Delete it immediately, before opening.
If you do not know the sender but reply back, they now have confirmation that yours is a working email address.
If you do know the sender, advise them their email has been ompromised.
And as much as I know this stuff (I work with computers for a living) I myself was caught with a bogus e mail sent from one of my son's old email addresses, which he no longer uses.
Also: The moderators advise you NOT to put perosnal information in your posts for the world to see.
Do you know the sender? Never open an email from someone you do not know. Delete it immediately, before opening.
If you do not know the sender but reply back, they now have confirmation that yours is a working email address.
If you do know the sender, advise them their email has been ompromised.
And as much as I know this stuff (I work with computers for a living) I myself was caught with a bogus e mail sent from one of my son's old email addresses, which he no longer uses.
Also: The moderators advise you NOT to put perosnal information in your posts for the world to see.
09-16-2011, 08:20 AM
#24
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Posts: 14,646
Originally Posted by Moonpi
what bothers me more is access to my name and e-mail address.
09-16-2011, 08:45 AM
#26
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 87
Originally Posted by Rose Marie
I thought the board was private but have found posts on the web when looking up quilt subjects.
So be careful what you post it goes out to the world.
email is a different matter and some sites can be less than safe to email.
So be careful what you post it goes out to the world.
email is a different matter and some sites can be less than safe to email.
09-16-2011, 08:46 AM
#27
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I watched a show on A&E about computer hackers. Professional spammers/hackers (which can be a bored teenager) have programs that most business IT depts have no clue about. The FBI has to make deals with hackers just to learn their methods. Hackers can make big money selling email and name lists to internet spammers.
09-16-2011, 09:08 AM
#28
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: New England, USA
Posts: 2,951
Originally Posted by VaNella
. . . . The only place I have let my email be known is in personal messages here. So it is not out of the question in my opinion.
My guess is that the PM's here are safer than using some online email accounts such as Gmail and Yahoo. I have several email accounts - one of which I use for online forums, another for FB, another for junk sign ups and one for bills and friends.
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