SPAM From anandtech?

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: minendo
Email has been forwarded with a nice message from me.

same here

 

[BlueApple]

Thank you Sir/Madam Mod.

My guess is that they get the link to a persons profile, and got some bot to search all of them and make a file will all text on the 'email' field. Just my guess

I'll keeep the email as a souvenir .

 

[Thegonagle]

The moderators here do a fine job, for the most part. I kind of like that nobody knows for sure who the F any of you are.

I think I will go ahead and re visi-fy my email address.

 

[Lucky]

god dammit, i got this same email. damm this bastard to hell-this is the first time I've ever been spammed at this email account. oh well, no email in profile anymore.

 

[yakko]

I wish I had read this thread before I check my email. Bastards. No more email in my profile either.

 

[TrentReznorNIN]

Thanks Mods. Glad that you guys are looking over things.

 

[chickendinner]

glad that i did not put my email in my profile

 

[richleader]

Thanks Mod, got it too.

 

[hoihtah]

haha... this is quite interesting.

so apparently some jackarse decided to mess with the mobs ... i mean... mods.

you don't spam AT'ers and expect to stay in business... or their cousins and relatives for that matter.

 

[Instagib]

Yeah I got the same thing as well today.

 

[Triumph]

just like to quip in that I got this spam too. you know, I never worried about leaving my email available here at AT, or at the other two forums I frequent, because I figured no one would ever go through the trouble of looking through the profiles of 90,000 members to collect some addy's. I thought it was safe; guess not (through no fault of AT). Damn, it must have taken him forever to go through and grab everyone's emails, wouldn't it?

Spam in general just gets my goat. Has anyone in the history of spam EVER clicked on it thinking, "Hey, This looks legit!"?? I somehow doubt it. I almost think that spammers do it for the soul purpose of ANNOYING ME.

 

[Kenny0829]

Got the same crap also, I figgured it could only be ONE place on that list that had my REAL address.
Tom's hardware and ZD net both have my OLD address, thus I figgured it had to be HERE.
Dammed, has this SCUM been banned yet ? I would assume so.
Hate to do it but gotta change my Profile.
But now , it's like closing the Barn Door AFTER, the Animals got out.

 

[narzy]

got it too. :|

 

[narzy]

all they need to do is rig a script to scan forums.anandtech.com/tombstone.cfm?ProfileID=15454 <---changing this number from 1 to 100000 and grab the mailto:email@address.com line and bamo a 92,000 sized list of every schmoe's E-mail address :|

 

[gopunk]

well for whatever reason, i didn't get this piece of spam. *shrug*

 

[MrBond]

all they need to do is rig a script to scan forums.anandtech.com/tombstone.cfm?ProfileID=15454 <---changing this number from 1 to 100000 and grab the mailto:email@address.com line and bamo a 92,000 sized list of every schmoe's E-mail address

Damn, I had NO idea it was that easy. Time to hide my email, I'll have to remember to turn it back on for trading in FS/T

 

[Carl Uman]

Spam sucks