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Author Topic: Receiving spam from "here"!  (Read 1866 times)
elector
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« on: April 27, 2009, 10:47:41 AM »

I just received a spam mail sent to the email address I registered on my profile here on this forum. The email address is unique to this use, hence why I know the spam originated "from here".

As far as I know the only way this could happen is:

1. The owners of the forum is selling email addresses - I sure do HOPE that isn't the case...
2. The server is infected with some kind of virus/trojan/etc. that harvested the email address.
3. A forum-administrators PC is infected with some kind of virus/trojan/etc. and he/she has viewed my profile, or however this forum works. Since my email address is hidden to normal users.
4. ?

PS. I have numerous unique email addresses, and none of the others are receiving this type of spam, so I'm pretty much 100% the source of the leak is not me nor my ISPs mailserver.
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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2009, 12:03:49 PM »

There were some problems with SMF engine but all known bugs are fixed FWIK. Please change your email and check if it's still an issue.

anyway, sorry for the problem :-(
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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2009, 12:32:30 PM »

Ok, good I guess. At least you know what the problem was and that it has been fixed. Too bad for the users that had their email addresses harvested. :-(

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