Below is an email I recieved about 5 mins ago. ================ Dear Webmaster I'm sending you this e-mail for some good offers that you will like. i have 35.000 " webmaster e-mail addresses" as text file. where did i get these e-mails? From an international " famous webmaster forum ". ( Digitalpoint ) You are a member of DigitalPoint Forum. So you got this e-mail Do you want to get this e-mail list? 35.000 real active webmaster e-mails GREAT OFFER IS ONLY 50 USD You can make payment with Paypal or Moneybookers I also will have a gift for you with this e-mail list. I will give you a " bulk e-mail sender program " ( Golden Launcher ) So You can send bulk e-mail very fast with this program. Don'be late. This offer is very limited ! Thanks Brain Meliknos send me e-mail for your offers P.S : If you want i also have very fresh - active and real e-mail list ( 720.000 international users ) Just : 30 USD If you want these both offer, want to buy both of them : 65 USD ===================== no its not me etc.. just thought you guys would like to know etc Pete
User silmarillon1 sent this email earlier today to me, prolly to all of you: From: "Brain" <brain@aol.com> Send reply to: To: Date sent: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:17:46 +0200 Subject: do you need 35.000 webmaster e-mail list? Dear Webmaster I'm sending you this e-mail for some good offers that you will like. i have 35.000 " webmaster e-mail addresses" as text file. where did i get these e-mails? From an international " famous webmaster forum ". ( Digitalpoint ) You are a member of DigitalPoint Forum. So you got this e-mail Do you want to get this e-mail list? 35.000 real active webmaster e-mails GREAT OFFER IS ONLY 50 USD You can make payment with Paypal or Moneybookers I also will have a gift for you with this e-mail list. I will give you a " bulk e-mail sender program " ( Golden Launcher ) So You can send bulk e-mail very fast with this program. Don'be late. This offer is very limited ! Thanks Brain Meliknos send me e-mail for your offers P.S : If you want i also have very fresh - active and real e-mail list ( 720.000 international users ) Just : 30 USD If you want these both offer, want to buy both of them : 65 USD
Hi Pete, I would investigate this offer a little more, before sending any money. Perhaps you could ask for a sample for these emails addresses? Also are these addresses 'legal'? Has he collected them on his own, and how? Best Regards, Boris
I just received the same email minutes ago, and I searched right away here if anyone else has received it. I'm just wondering how this guy who sent the email was able to gather the emails of the members here.
funny how others came up with silly ideas just to earn easy bucks... couldn't they just crucify those kind of people now-a-days?
I got an email as well.. to my special DP address (dp @ domain.com); so they most definitely got them from this forum.. I haven't posted it publicly anywhere; only used it for registration.. and I just looked in my profile. It's hidden. So I'm not sure where they got the list from unless they bought it from the site?
Thats a good thing. I didnt get one either. I also never signed up for anything related to this. Hope he doesnt have my email address. Time to PM sean to take a look at the Db?
With new email system in place, I do not believe members can harvest other's email addresses from profiles. Now if you publically post your e-mail address in a thread that is another matter.
About a week ago you could find the email address to anyone just by clicking "Send a message via email to xxxxx". This guy just collected alot of them before the new system came in place. It's recently been changed to a form format due to all the spamming people have recieved.
okay isnt it strange that he will try to sell it back to a DP member lol so what when the DP member who buys it spams everyone here like we wont know right LOL
I didn't get it Awww i so want those emails as well. I've always dreamt of being a "Make your meat thicker" Salesman