shall I regret for joining this forum?

[Daffodial]

hi there,


i m sooooo upset coz it seems that sth wrong is going in this forum. Recently i ve received emails from ppl who claimed to be from Ivory Coast asking me to assist them investing their huge inheritance (some 10 millions) from their killed dads in my own country. these emails are really bothering. they dont stop flowing into my emails. they said my email has been taken  from computer hope forum

Kindly i request administrators of this site to protect our privacy and block others from seeing our emails.

your response is highly appreciated!!


Best Regards,

[BC_Programmer]

There are a few other occurences with other members, as well:

http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,74347.0.html

If you can add anything there that the other members having spam problems haven't, I'm sure they would be appreciative.

Moderators can only do so much- and the e-mail addresses they are being sent from are varied and none correspond with the e-mails of members who have recently joined, which makes locating (and subsequently banning) the member harvesting e-mails difficult.

[Broni]

...and what does CH have to do with someone's spam?

[BC_Programmer]

...and what does CH have to do with someone's spam?

they said my email has been taken  from computer hope forum

which is weird, since members cannot view other members E-mails unless they have explicitly unhidden them....


big surprise... daffodial's E-mail has been set to be viewable.

mystery explained.

[Broni]

they said my email has been taken  from computer hope forum

says who?

[Broni]

big surprise... daffodial's E-mail has been set to be viewable.

Aha....

[computeruler]

I got the same spam emails from the same person.  Try going into your account settings and remove your email from being seen

[BC_Programmer]

they aren't very smart. I have my e-mail set to hidden- but they could have easily gotten it from my MSN.

Probably some kind of bot.

[Broni]

You WON!!!
10 million!!!
What's my share?

[Broni]

BC
Google your email address.

[BC_Programmer]

lol- One hit...

the Zboard.... hmm, I should actually post there once in a while.

[Broni]

I googled computeruler email address. Plenty of hits....LOL

[Broni]

Did you Google your phone munber?

[computeruler]

i only got one hit for my email and thats for some email findermail.com add thing
i googled just computeruler and TONS of hits lol

[Broni]

i only got one hit for my email

I used Chrome, and I got you well