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E-mail harvesting

by Tony Richards · in Site Feedback · 10/23/2006 (7:29 pm) · 3 replies

I've noticed an above-average amount of e-mail address harvesting latetly... anyone else noticed it?

The latest:
Quote:
We recently received notification that you would like to be added to a GarageGames.com Inc email list.
For your security, you may confirm that the request was made from IP Address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx at 10/22/2006 at 12:27:45 PST.

To verify that you wish to receive emails from GarageGames.com Inc, please use the link below:

Confirm Your Subscription Now

or copy and paste this into your web browser:
http://www.icebase.com/dopt.ice?xxx@gmail.com&garagegames&xxxx

Is this a harvest attempt, or is it really something from GG? The GarageGames.com Inc makes me believe it's fake... and icebase.com is a spamming website.

I've done a decent job at obfuscating my public e-mail address... dunno if someone is manually harvesting or what.... annoying... too bad there's nothing that can be done about it.
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    Associate Orion Elenzil
    Real Life Plus
    #1
    10/23/2006 (7:54 pm)
    Looks like spam.
    i've never gotten a single "confirm your subscription" email from GG.

    i get a small number of spams for testicular enhancement etc to my GG account,
    so someone is definitely scraping the site for that stuff.

    Torque Owner Joshua Dallman
    Default Studio Name
    #2
    10/23/2006 (11:04 pm)
    Looks real. If you downloaded anything from our site lately, before you get the download link you are asked if you want to opt-in to the dev or game newsletter. Icebase is not a spamming website but rather an opt-in newsletter marketing service that we pay to use. We would never share community email addresses or other personal information. You have to create a GG account and log in to be able to even see the email address in people's profiles, but a spam/scrape-bot could still find addy's in forum and blog postings, or if someone intentionally logged in and then scraped.

    Associate Orion Elenzil
    Real Life Plus
    #3
    10/23/2006 (11:54 pm)
    I stand corrected!