Hi everyone, Wondering if anyone else has received emails from people they do not know which claim to have found your email through BadmintonCentral.com... sounds fishy to me because I have never posted my email on here. I'm wondering how they could have related my username to my email. I'll post the email here because of how ridiculous it sounds:Hello sweetie My name is judy, i am 25yrs old, i'm a free minded, open hearted girl, i like to take life as easy as i could, i'm one of the few that still belives in friendship,love, trust and signs, am very much single and ready to mingle. was browsing through the internet and came across your contact at (www.badmintoncentral.com) belive me i like what i see,it will be my sincere pleasure to be your friend if you don't mind, i hope you will not take my request for granted, feel free to email me, i will appreciate it if you can send me some pics, i look forward to hear from you soon. Take care. Judy Yeah, and she(he/she/it) attached a photo too. Afraid to download it so I took a 'print screen' to attach to here for you guys. leme kno what u think... and i hope im not just being a little bit overly paranoid.
i did mention before. do not post your personal details in the forum/thread; 1. email 2. phone number 3. address this is like inviting spam. "please email me, anything will do" *if need to, exchange them via Private Messaging* dear chrisnchips, refer this, http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?78419 what you mean by never post??
anyone else getting this? i have a couple other reports. i am not exactly sure how this has happened and how the spammer managed to get hold of the emails. there must be a security hole in the software. i will start investigating this. my apologies to whoever received it. please delete it.
never encountered this. well, at least when i saw such emails/spams in my reg. email, i'd delete them right away without checking the contents. it's interesting from whom/which email address did chrisnchips get the email from and the title of the email..??..
Hey Ctjcad what's the matter ? That person sounds kinda friendly and lovely ! Gimme her mail if don't plan to answer yourself
Hi chrisnchip, I have just received the same email as you did. I have downloaded the photo and I can say please do not download the photo. You'll be regretting if you saw her.. haha
..i was thinking, is it perhaps related to badmintoncentral.com's facebook's page??..i don't know if chrisnchips is a member of BC's facebook page or not??.. ..you sure the person is a "she"???..
ok. so out of the incidents that has been reported to me. there are cases where the email address used was not the email address the person used to registered in BC. and in all cases, those people have their email address posted publicly. from this we can conclude that the spammer simply farmed email addresses from BC posts and use them for spam. which is good as that means the user registration database is ok and not compromised. but also means that to protect our users' privacy, we should: - discourage posting email publicly - have some way to prevent unregistered user to see email address posted in the forum.
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