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[Tim Drayton]

I have noticed that an e-mail purporting to come from me at my business e-mail address ([email protected]) and containing a job offer in Greek is currently being spammed to e-mail addresses. The message invites you to click on a link to HarrietATgogreecejob.com. Please note that my e-mail address has been spoofed and I am not the sender of this e-mail. It is certainly either a fraud or a trick to get people to click a toxic link. Please delete this message if you receive it and most certainly do not click on the link.

[Sotos]

You should never post your main email address as plain text in any website (including forums). Bots can easily "harvest" these email addresses and then can be used for various not so nice purposes. In your website you should use a contact form and you should have a second "throw away" email address for when you are required to give it.

[CBBB]

I have noticed that an e-mail purporting to come from me at my business e-mail address ([email protected]) and containing a job offer in Greek is currently being spammed to e-mail addresses. The message invites you to click on a link to HarrietATgogreecejob.com. Please note that my e-mail address has been spoofed and I am not the sender of this e-mail. It is certainly either a fraud or a trick to get people to click a toxic link. Please delete this message if you receive it and most certainly do not click on the link.

I received five variations of this yesterday, but I think you will find that the sender's email address is always the same as the recipients, so people are not receiving this with you as the sender, except for yourself.

[Tim Drayton]

You should never post your main email address as plain text in any website (including forums). Bots can easily "harvest" these email addresses and then can be used for various not so nice purposes. In your website you should use a contact form and you should have a second "throw away" email address for when you are required to give it.

I have heard this argument before. However, 100% of the business I do is via the Internet and both my existing clients and prospective new clients contact me by e-mail. Not to publish my e-mail address would be commercial suicide. I am angry at the way law enforcement agencies everywhere turn a blind eye to this kind of crime, thus encouraging ever more criminals to engage in this kind of scamming safe in the knowledge that they can do so with impunity. I should be able to take action against those who spoof me in this way - and this is not by any means the first time that it has happened.

[Tim Drayton]

I have noticed that an e-mail purporting to come from me at my business e-mail address ([email protected]) and containing a job offer in Greek is currently being spammed to e-mail addresses. The message invites you to click on a link to HarrietATgogreecejob.com. Please note that my e-mail address has been spoofed and I am not the sender of this e-mail. It is certainly either a fraud or a trick to get people to click a toxic link. Please delete this message if you receive it and most certainly do not click on the link.

I received five variations of this yesterday, but I think you will find that the sender's email address is always the same as the recipients, so people are not receiving this with you as the sender, except for yourself.

Interesting. I wonder why they would do that.

[johnny1]

tim what internet business do you do?can i get into it?:)