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[andym 10]

Just received spam email from "Paypal" to the email I created especially for this forum. Never used anywhere else. Am I the only one and they randomly managed to work out this email or could it be possible the email is somehow displayed on the forums here in a setting I have missed?

[TheEpicPlum 10]

Mate, I actually got PayPal spam today (I initially deleted it, but I am now looking at it now) - and I don't get spam that often. I won't bother opening it but I got it at 13:50 and it's from [email protected], asking me to solve a problem with my account (which is nonexistent, aha).

[DarkAngelMJH 12]

It always amuses me to hover over the link they give you and see how similar they could make the web address.

[James R 10]

Found 1 in my junk folder

[andym 10]

That's exactly the message I got. I didn't want to say it but has the emails for this site leaked somehow?

[DC 88]

I had this a week back, and have had multiple ones since, I used the phishing scam thing on hotmail. I doubt if they'd actually read it. But I can see how anyone who's not computer savvy would fall for this.

[Jono 66]

I'll look into this, although I've seen nothing from vBulletin yet to suggest there could be any issues. Will do some digging.

[Viv 14]

Just received spam email from "Paypal" to the email I created especially for this forum. Never used anywhere else. Am I the only one and they randomly managed to work out this email or could it be possible the email is somehow displayed on the forums here in a setting I have missed?

Email addresses are easy to obtain. Even if you make a donation to a charity, it often shows up when you google your name. I got one of these too, but I just ignore this stuff. It fascinates me that people would actually click on a link and hand over passwords / other details?!