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Geek Culture / Spam from TGC Forum member

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 20th Jun 2007 22:11
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Urm, did any one else get an email from a guy called 'Phlum'?

I have no idea why they bothered sending me a spam mail, but it was one of thise dumb 'Post this in (a certain time) (event will happen)' emails.
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soapyfish
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Posted: 20th Jun 2007 23:35
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Just delete it/add to spam folder/whatever. Not much point posting here imo as there's more you can do to stop them spamming you than anyone else here.

We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day. We like who we like, we hate who we hate but we're also easily swayed!
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Robin
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Posted: 20th Jun 2007 23:49
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maybe posting here was what what the spam told him to do? lol

copy and paste this into 5 threads or your computer will crash and you will lose all your code!!: "Urm, did any one else read a post from a guy called 'Robin'? I have no idea why he bothered posting a spam message, but it was one of thise dumb 'Post this in (a certain time) (event will happen)' message.

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Shadow heart
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 00:18
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i got a spam email once who just downloaded one of the games here. but they like just said who r u? to me and they said the game creators??? and i said yeah. so they werent'out to get me or nothing.

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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That C++ Nerd
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 05:52
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Ha! I remember Phlum!
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 06:47
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Why does that name "Phlum" sound so familiar, and yet I can't remember a forum member with that name?


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Phaelax
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 07:18
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Sounds like the same kid who likes to spam ppl on IM


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indi
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 07:52
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freetimm@ntlworld.com appears to be his email if he used that link to spam you.

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FredP
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 08:02
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He spammed me too.Apparantly there are people who cruise the internet thinking that there's not enough spam in the world and they ought to add to it.
Just put it in your spam folder with the rest of the garbage.

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Shadow heart
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 11:13
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that annoys me when ppl do that

to the ones thats trapped inside of you, this is it!!
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Cash Curtis II
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Location: Corpus Christi Texas
Posted: 21st Jun 2007 11:23
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You're all spamming me right now. Please stop


Come see the WIP!
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GatorHex
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Joined: 5th Apr 2005
Location: Gunchester, UK
Posted: 21st Jun 2007 11:57 Edited at: 21st Jun 2007 12:12
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The problem is this forum source code is using lazy HTML/JS "mailto:" code to provide an e-mail link.

It's easy for a spammer to use automation to collect it so I'd advise not exposing your e-mail address here.

<a href="mailto:c4sh.curt1s#gm4il.c0m"><img src="g/email.gif" width=54 height=19 alt="Send this user an email" border=0 hspace=4></a>

I've disguised it a bit, but you get the drift

DinoHunter http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=98385&b=8
CPU/GPU Benchmark http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=101716&b=5
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Josh
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 12:17
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Somehow I don't think this guy has an automated spamming machine.

Sounds to me like he just added everyone from his address book to the email, as people tend to do when they are sending chain mail.

The mystery is why he had your email addy in the first place...

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MikeB
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Posted: 21st Jun 2007 12:23
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I googled "phlum" looks like he was a gm6 user mainly .

E.D.


Shame I can't change my name
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