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Spam Message

Posted by Luke Blanchard on February 22, 2015 at 6:15pm in Important Notifications

I just got an email purporting to come from an Andrew Smith, with a link to a webpage which I didn't click on. The message says it was sent from an iPhone. I don't get much spam, and the name made me think of this board. I thought I should post about this in case a malicious party has gotten access to the board's email list.

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  • PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod February 22, 2015 at 6:26pm

    I got it, too.

  • Richard Willis February 22, 2015 at 6:34pm

    I didn't get it. Possibly it's related to his AOL address.

  • Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod) February 22, 2015 at 8:29pm

    I didn't get one, either. Seems to have been selective.

  • Captain Comics February 23, 2015 at 2:48am

    I didn't get it. Please, follow up if you can.

  • Luke Blanchard February 23, 2015 at 5:50am

    The message wasn't sent through the board, so the emailer may have gotten Pete's and my addresses from some other source (say, the maker of software we both use). The name could be a coincidence, a compound of two common names that's supposed to make people think they know the sender. The personalised part of the email's return address was "fatherjad", which means nothing to me, and the URL in the message was a meaningless collection of letters. I don't know of a way of following it up. I've already deleted the message.

  • Detective 445 February 23, 2015 at 9:20am

    I checked my spam folder and sure enough, it was in there. 

    There was a link to suzuki website and a couple of email addresses. One being a captain comics aol address and the other coming from something called rossi.com.

  • PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod February 23, 2015 at 9:39am

    I got it on an older email address that I haven't used on the ning site.

  • Jeff of Earth-J January 2, 2018 at 7:56am

    Someone posted the following to the "comments" section of Tracy's page:

    At 3:25am on January 2, 2018,

    Tidiane Ndiaye said…

    Good Day,

    How is everything with you, I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something very vital to disclose to you, but I found it difficult to express myself here, since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on:(tidinanenadiay@gmail.com) for the full details.

    Have a nice day

    Thanks God bless.

    Tidiane.

    EDIT: (I got one, too.)

  • Mickey McLaurin January 2, 2018 at 8:19am

    I just got this one, too. 

    Jeff of Earth-J said:

    Someone posted the following to the "comments" section of Tracy's page:

    At 3:25am on January 2, 2018,

    Tidiane Ndiaye said…

    Good Day,

    How is everything with you, I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately. I have something very vital to disclose to you, but I found it difficult to express myself here, since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on:(tidinanenadiay@gmail.com) for the full details.

    Have a nice day

    Thanks God bless.

    Tidiane.

    EDIT: (I got one, too.)

  • John Dunbar January 2, 2018 at 9:06am

    Hi folks,

    I apologize to all of you.  I am the one who approved Tidiane Ndiaye a few days ago.  I wasn't as vigilant as I should have been, and I'm sorry you were spammed as a result.  For Tidiane, the IP location matched what was listed as the home city and country of Lome, Togo.  They answered the five favorite comics characters question with "I am Tidiane Ndiaye" and all I can say is that in a moment of weakness I thought that perhaps something was lost in translation.  Lesson learned here.  Sorry again for the inconvenience.

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