[TowerTalk] FW: now a dating site?

[David Gilbert]

Bingo.  Exactly 13 minutes after I posted a reply to the 80m dipole 
query I received one of these "dating" solicitations, and the return 
address has no relationship at all to a TowerTalk or contesting.com 
address.  Somebody is simply mining the list postings for addresses ... 
probably with a robot.   It doesn't require anybody to be hacked for 
that to happen.

Dave   AB7E


On 7/20/2014 8:28 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> Not necessarily.  This kind of thing has been going on for quite a 
> while now, and it seems more likely that somebody has been mining the 
> email addresses of those who post here to TowerTalk.  It's trivial to 
> do just by going to the recent archives.
>
> I haven't gotten either of those messages, but I bet I get a similar 
> one now that I've made this post.
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
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> On 7/20/2014 7:46 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
>> I also got a message somewhat like that but it was worded different.  
>> Same intent.  Yep - think someone's been hacked.  73
>> Tom W7WHY
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>> On 7/20/2014 7:43 PM, Alan NV8A wrote:
>>> I did not see the message that you quoted. I suspect that one of the 
>>> members of the TowerTalk list has had his/her address book "borrowed."
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Alan NV8A
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