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No problem, Carol!! I think that all of us are used to junk floating by, both spam and ham! mike On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>wrote: > To all the people in my address book, however a remote connection: > > I have been the subject of a spam and hack. A Website called Click and > Flirt > stole my identity by giving me a fictitious one with my first name, and > then > sent invitations to flirt to many, many people in my address book. I don't > know how they did so, but after a strongly worded message to them, I have > been assured my name is no longer on the data base. > > *However, they also told me that messages will continue to go out for > another 5 days.* During that time please ignore messages that come from > Carol1243, which is the fictitious name. > > I do hope you understand. I am mortified to be the subject of hacking like > this. Please also remember, when you are sending out or forwarding group > messages to use the *Bcc window to prevent spamming*. You will see above > that the scores of adddresses are hidden, and only one address remains in > the Cc box. > > Apologies again > Carol > > -- > Visiting Lecturer > Wits School of Education > Research Fellow > Linguistics Dept: Unisa > ----------------------------------------- > HOME (please use these details) > 6 Andover Road > Westdene > Johannesburg 2092 > +27 (0)11 673 9265 +27 (0)82 562 1050 > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca