I have received a lot of Spam the last week or two and I think that it is cased by me having my email address posted publicly in this forum. Several of the members her have their email addresses made public, anyone can view your address, including Spam-bots. (Spam robots that harvest websites for email addresses to add to their masters mail lists.)
To fix this, open your profile information and change “Always show my e-mail address:â€
Spam warning!
- curious_sb
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another tip is to post your address like this:
curious_sb@NOSPAMhotmail.co.uk (my pseudo account)
When the spam-bots scan the site they will use this address "as it is captured", but it wont get anywhere, and most people know about this and if they genuinely want to contact you they will know to remove the NOSPAM bit anyway.
curious_sb@NOSPAMhotmail.co.uk (my pseudo account)
When the spam-bots scan the site they will use this address "as it is captured", but it wont get anywhere, and most people know about this and if they genuinely want to contact you they will know to remove the NOSPAM bit anyway.
Curious_SB
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- curious_sb
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- curious_sb
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- Posts: 1147
- Joined: 24 Mar 2006, 00:38
- Location: United Kingdom