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To all board participants/ observers, up until tonight this was my email address that had been hacked or spammed for years now.

I refused to be bullied into changing it over some idiot or idiots sending out inappropriate material and making it look like it was me who was sending it, rest assured it was not me!

My apologies to anyone that ever recieved any of this garbage and as was as offended as i.

Regards,
Dave
Love those toned Washingtons

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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dave, you are not alone. Practically everyone I know has had this happened to them. Sometimes I even get the crap from myself!

    I no longer get worked up about it. Google mail is pretty good at catching this stuff.
    Lance.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't feel bad.

    I once got one of those spam emails from another board member whose email had been compromised.
    I pm'd him just to let him know, no big deal.
    Anyway, he gets back to me and tells me he already knew because he just heard the same thing from Edmund Moy.

    Stuff happens.
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    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500
    how do you know?


    you may have a virus that uses your email for their spam



    not that they hacked your email acct, but they hacked your computer which does their dirty work
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Or more likely, they sent spam from someplace else, and just made it look like it came from your email. That happens a lot. I could send email from my PC and make it look like it came from another email address. You'd have to dig through the headers to find out it was spoofed, but most people don't even know how to do that.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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