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Old Mar 24, 2012 | 11:41 AM
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I have my email so only members can message me. somehow I've received 15 emails since March 7th about random stuff (tax return denied, confirming airline confirmation, etc)

I have only used my specific cobaltss email for this website so I can monitor which sites sells or spams my email. I've created numerous prefixes for my domain to target this specific action.

So has the site been hacked? Has my email been sold?

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Old Mar 24, 2012 | 11:43 AM
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Old Mar 24, 2012 | 08:19 PM
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[QUOTE=s1lver;6411935]I have my email so only members can message me. somehow I've received 15 emails since March 7th about random stuff (tax return denied, confirming airline confirmation, etc)

I have only used my specific cobaltss email for this website so I can monitor which sites sells or spams my email. I've created numerous prefixes for my domain to target this specific action.


Hi,

Thank you for the question. Email address are considered private and are not released to anyone. Since this appears to be an isolated case, my hunch is your address was culled from a post or a generic bot guessed correct. I have no reason to believe we were hacked. Thanks.

Bob..
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Old Mar 28, 2012 | 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by speedlimit
Originally Posted by s1lver
I have my email so only members can message me. somehow I've received 15 emails since March 7th about random stuff (tax return denied, confirming airline confirmation, etc)

I have only used my specific cobaltss email for this website so I can monitor which sites sells or spams my email. I've created numerous prefixes for my domain to target this specific action.

Hi,

Thank you for the question. Email address are considered private and are not released to anyone. Since this appears to be an isolated case, my hunch is your address was culled from a post or a generic bot guessed correct. I have no reason to believe we were hacked. Thanks.

Bob..
that's a specific email address to guess correctly nor is my email address posted in any post.
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