Even Net 54 isn't immune from stalkers and phishers

[Leon]

Originally Posted by CardTarget

Here's the good news and the bad news.

Good news: this targeted every message board on network54.com, not just ours. They weren't targeting "card guys".

Bad news: You are all likely now on a major spam list.

Here's how the little scam works, they write a computer program to go through the millions of posts to extract any email addresses they find. Then they send an email to all of the addresses. If it doesn't "bounce" then they know they have a legit active email address that they can sell to other spammers.

All you can do about it is NOT post your email address to any forums (network54, the old site had some serious privacy issues) and get some good anti-spam software.

Actually, in addition to spam software, if you use Outlook as I do, you can right click on the email "she" sent and add it, and the senders domain, to a blocked list. Or you can email back and try to get something going AND if you do please report back what she looks like...