Scott Walker email under the disgues of Christian Forums ?

[Korah]

I'm on Hotmail.com and I started a thread in Site Supporters asking a vote for whether CF has been hacked for bought out by the Scott Walker campaign. As if the Koch Brothers needed OUR money!
EDITED TO ADD:
So I'm wrong. None of the people on page one is a site supporter, so that's not the exclusive domain of those who were hacked.
Does that indicate that no true "Catholics" would be so untrue as to be site supporters, and thus my claim as a Lutheran to be a "Catholic" is revealed to be a sham?
Whoops, let's not degenerate into another Protestants vs. Catholics thread. Disregard last transmission.

 

[pgp_protector]

Not seeing anything in my inbox.
For those that are, do you have a unique e-mail for ChristianForum's e-mail, or is it just a standard e-mail that anyone might find?

Example if you own a domain MyBoringPersonalBlog.com , your e-mail for the site might be christianforums@myboringpersonalblog.com while when Sears ask you for an E-Mail you'll give them sears@myboringpersonalblog.com

This way when you start getting spam coming at badcompanysoldmyemail@myboringpersonalblog.com you know that badcompanysoldmyemail probably either got hacked, or sold your e-mail address as badcompanysoldmyemail should be the only business that has that e-mail address.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

The email asks for a donation, so its probably a scam

If it's a scam the person doing the scam is probably doing it just for the money and cares nothing about Scott Walker.

 

[Korah]

Perhaps only us Site Supporters are getting the phony plea for money for Scott Walker (as if he wasn't already bought out by the Koch Brothers). Anyone getting it who is NOT a site supporter?

 

[MikeK]

Anyway, it appears to have come from Scott Walker's campaign.

Hopefully its not a virus

It is.


....wait, you were talking about the Walker campaign, right?

 

[bhillyard]

I got it and I'm not a site supporter.
As I am a citizen of the UK and have never been to the USA I would not be eligible to vote.
The receipt of an email like this would ensure didn' vote for the apparent sender.

 

[Lavendar Frog]

I've not seen anything in my inbox as yet.
I'd wait to see if the Administrator here will share to what they know about this. Seeing it would be at a high level in CF wherein any such transactions would occur on any forum. At least one may presume so. I.E. release of emails for mass marketing, political or otherwise, etc...

Also, we might want to consider that spiders and such crawl all over the net and particularly in forums. They copy keywords in posts, articles, and even our emails on our profile. This , being Google employs much of those kind of things, could be what's happening.
Especially if someone has received these in their Google owned Gmail Inbox. I'd say that may be an indicator. Again, speculation on my part there.

Block the sender if you did get this. It should be a stop point after that. And never open it. Even if it is from CF. I'd rely on someone who wanted to get in touch with me to PM me direct right here. Especially now that we know this is happening to some members.

God Bless.

 

[pgp_protector]

I've not seen anything in my inbox as yet.
I'd wait to see if the Administrator here will share to what they know about this. Seeing it would be at a high level in CF wherein any such transactions would occur on any forum. At least one may presume so. I.E. release of emails for mass marketing, political or otherwise, etc...

Also, we might want to consider that spiders and such crawl all over the net and particularly in forums. They copy keywords in posts, articles, and even our emails on our profile. This , being Google employs much of those kind of things, could be what's happening.
Especially if someone has received these in their Google owned Gmail Inbox. I'd say that may be an indicator. Again, speculation on my part there.

Block the sender if you did get this. It should be a stop point after that. And never open it. Even if it is from CF. I'd rely on someone who wanted to get in touch with me to PM me direct right here. Especially now that we know this is happening to some members.

God Bless.

Thing is spiders shouldn't be able to crawl & get member's e-mails. If the site is allowing bots to gather e-mails that would be a major issue.

 

[Lavendar Frog]

In the years I've been online and those forums I've joined, don't know about this ones firewall or what have you, we were always told to watch or even delete our email due to the crawlies that would copy it for SPAM and other unsolicited purposes.

 

[pgp_protector]

In the years I've been online and those forums I've joined, don't know about this ones firewall or what have you, we were always told to watch or even delete our email due to the crawlies that would copy it for SPAM and other unsolicited purposes.

It's not the firewall, it's the forum settings.
Bots don't create accounts, so they craw the site as an unregistered guest.
Unregistered guest normally are not allowed to view user profiles.

 

[Lavendar Frog]

I've no idea how it all works. I just remember the forums that warned us about our email being at risk.

 

[pdudgeon]

just checked my recently deleted e-mail, and yep, i got one too.

i didn't open it because of the weird address, and i'm not posting it here
because i don't want to put something out there that might harm someone.

 

[Lavendar Frog]

I just checked my Spam folder and my email arrived today. Sent from, website(at)christianforums(dot)com.
I set a filter to put a stop to receipt of that type email. I found their email address by simply mouse scrolling over the weird text that was in the 'subject' line.

They're getting our address somehow or other.
I also removed the check on my profile contact information here and that allows for emails alerting of conversations. I remembered from those other forums that that was one of the gateways that allowed the crawlies to get to the emails there.I don't know about CF in that respect. But better safe than spammed.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Except that the email comes from christianforums.com, same as all the other CF emails.

Thus the spoofed email.

Most of us know spam when we see it, but seeing a strange email from a friend—or worse, from ourselves—in our inbox is pretty disconcerting. If you've seen an email that looks like it's from a friend, it doesn't mean they've been hacked. Spammers spoof those addresses all the time, and it's not hard to do. Here's how they do it, and how you can protect yourself.

Spammers have been spoofing email addresses for a long time. Years ago, they used to get contact lists from malware-infected PCs. Today's data thieves choose their targets carefully, and phish them with messages that look like they came from friends, trustworthy sources, or even their own account.

It turns out that spoofing real email addresses is surprisingly easy, and part of why phishing is such a problem. Systems Engineer, aspiring CISSP, and Lifehacker reader Matthew tipped us off to how it works, but also took us by surprise by emailing a few of us at Lifehacker from other Lifehacker writers' email addresses. Despite the fact that we knew it was possible—we’ve all gotten spam before—it was more disconcerting to actually be tricked by it. So, we talked to him about how he did it and what people can do to protect themselves.

 

[FreeinChrist]

I do not think this was sanctioned at all. I will let the others know.

 

[Mountain_Girl406]

There is a message in Announcements here about it now. The Walker campaign paid the CF site to send it.

 

[LoAmmi]

Well.. that's the last time I give them the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Lavendar Frog]

There is a message in Announcements here about it now. The Walker campaign paid the CF site to send it.

Sure enough and posted there 47 minutes ago. To save members the clicking:

Regarding Recent Email Blast By:Tech Admin
Just wanted to make a quick announcement stating the following:


1) We were paid to send out the email. The Scott Walker campaign essentially bought an advertisement on our site, expect it was in the form of an email.
2) We did not turn over any email addresses. We manage our own email sending service and 3rd parties do not and will not ever be sold your email address. Any emails sent out must be sent out through our system so that no email addresses are compromised.
3) We understand that this should be made more clear and in future emails it will be clear that it is a paid advertisement.
4) We will never accept another political email campaign again. We understand now it can be polarizing and the email that was sent was not an endorsement. It was essentially a TV advertisement for the Scott Walker campaign that they paid us to run. Again, truly sorry.

If you can not figure out how to unsubscribe from future paid emails, simply post in this thread and I will manually remove you myself.

I can figure out how. Change my email to a disposable email so that it is one dedicated only to the CF account .

 

[Lavendar Frog]

Well.. that's the last time I give them the benefit of the doubt.

I feel violated.

 

[James Is Back]

I feel violated.

You're not the only one.