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Re: Spam alert!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au
Date: 
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:40:03 GMT
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I've been spam, spam, spam sausages and spam sandwiched by it too. But I've
never given my details to brickbay yet. So obviously this characters got
contacts from elsewhere. I'm guessing they've used the membership list? on
lugnet to pull out Aus only names.

Santosh

In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, David Low writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
The same thing happened to me, although I believe that the addresses were
harvested from brickbay [the "seller" had just signed up there on the 12th] • as
one email address it was sent to [I got it at 2 email addresses] isn't used • in
relation to lugnet, only brickbay, and another I [used to] use on lugnet
wasn't sent to [I think].

I sent him (guessing it's a guy) a "please don't spam me" email: in his
apologetic reply he said that he has addresses from lugnet, ebay and brickbay.
He claimed that he was sent an extra Tour de France set from Europe and is
trying to pass it on to an Australian collector. In his first email he had
said, "If you want 2 set, I may try to get from local shop". I don't know what
the whole story is, and I'm not really interested.

For me the basic message is that at least one person has compiled an AFOL
address list, probably with fields for location and interests. :-(

--DaveL



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  Re: Spam alert!
 
There's been another case of harvesting... I got an email at work today about an egg farm for sale in Qld region. The seller actually stated where he got my details: lugnet.loc.au.qld.mac [I think that's right.] He said he got it while looking for (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)

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  Re: Spam alert!
 
(...) I sent him (guessing it's a guy) a "please don't spam me" email: in his apologetic reply he said that he has addresses from lugnet, ebay and brickbay. He claimed that he was sent an extra Tour de France set from Europe and is trying to pass it (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)

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