spammers are farming digg for email addresses, remove yours now
i’ve been getting really weird spam for the past 2 weeks or so and the first time i got it, i looked at the ‘sent to’ field and noticed that a lot of the other people this spam was sent to were other top digger friends of mine. every time i got these emails, i sent an email to [email protected] to tell them that spammers are farming digg for email addresses (i sent them an email on october 25th, then again on november 2, then on november 7th) but they haven’t done anything yet, and i got a 4th email today.
i am not the only digger that was targeted and until digg does something about this, i would recommend removing your email information from your profile.
Technorati Tags: digg, email, spam, abuse
November 9th, 2007 at 1:12 am
I’ve personally noticed a lot more spam making it through my filters in the past few weeks - Gmail’s typically pretty good at stopping it.
But more than that, I’m getting heaps of IM requests on Google Talk - and about the only place I list my Gtalk contact is on Digg.
Still, spammers might simply think that [email protected] is a good target for a Gtalk friend request.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Thanks for this, I will remove my email asap.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I’m guessing my email isn’t there. Are you talking about people posting their actual email address for everyone to see, because I don’t do that in the first place. That’s always been a good way to get spammed.
OK, I see Settings>Privacy: Email>Allow others to search for my Profile by email address…>Nobody. That ought to be right.