I’d agree.I haven’t received one, probably because my email address has changed since I joined, and I haven’t updated. This problem looks like a data hack.
GT email ads?
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Viking Power
Synchromatic
Ah, man. Thought it was legit. Ordered all members here a fancy modern slide so they can play their old school music.
I got it too. Is this the start of another round of spam?
Yeah, I got one from the Gear Page as well. The admin on that page was very helpful and tracked it down to this forum.
It's annoying and impossible for me to log in to the Gear Page account to stop the spam as I'm not a member.
This forum has no option to stop emails. If I go to my account, I can only add a newsletter, not remove myself from any email list.
It's annoying and impossible for me to log in to the Gear Page account to stop the spam as I'm not a member.
This forum has no option to stop emails. If I go to my account, I can only add a newsletter, not remove myself from any email list.
Jelly Roll Horton
Country Gent
I just had one show up in a secondary email address that I’ve never used on GT, so this isn’t GT specific.
That’s good to know. It looks like a major spam effort, of some sort, or perhaps a phishing attempt.
Maybe the boys at “R Bait U” are upset.
Bertotti
Gretschified
I haven’t even checked my junk email today. This one came to my current I use email. Somewhere the address was stolen or farmed out to a list and that list is being used to spam. I was surprised that it got past my spam and even more so when the email was from here. Of course the forum admin email could have been stolen tue same way. Now to check my spam folder.
Bertotti
Gretschified
Wow the garbage in my junk box is always amazing and what gets me more is how some people fall for it!
Got one here as well.
+1
LongJohn
Synchromatic
+ another 1
Me too.............
Should,d I be
Same here. Changed my email address 6 months ago and I haven't got any GT emails. As an aside, I had no idea it would be such a hassle to inform all my previous contacts. There always are some cropping up that I forgot about. Unfortunately that didn't occur with the CRA....ie Canadian tax man.I haven’t received one, probably because my email address has changed since I joined, and I haven’t updated. This problem looks like a data hack.
Bertotti
Gretschified
Well, since this first GT email now I am mindsets with spam. I might have to get a new email address. I am holding out and deleting and sending everything to junk and deleting them. I hope it decreases as they are deleted and left unopened.
That’s a real shame. I have no idea of what happened, and haven’t heard anything from the owners. Apparently, it was widespread, whatever the source. If there is an actual product tied to it, I would be glad to inform the manufacturers that they have lost my business, permanently.
Bertotti
Gretschified
Companies hire this out sometimes. I think it is possible they ent even know about it.
Sometimes people are paid by referral, as in direct someone to a web site and get a referral fee. If that’s the case, the seller migh have no idea that they are being advertised with spam.
Bertotti
Gretschified
I am always amazed how sneaky online spam email harvesting fraud etc gets. If some of these people put half as much thought into a legit business or line of work they could really go paces. But sadly it seems the damage has been done my sspam is through the roof now.
