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Email Acct. Hacked....A bit off Topic but neccessary

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#1

Everyone,
Unfortunately my main email acct. has been compromised and its been sending spam emails, heck i’ve even gotten a few myself to my back-up acct. I’m letting everyone here know that as of Noon today that acct will be closed and I can be reached at my new acct vgn700 at hotmail.com. I’ll be updating all my online accts today.

Again I am sorry that my machine hasnt been playing nice with the world, and that some people in the world have nothing better to do with their time other than making other people miserable. I think they need a new more productive hobby, like Trains perhaps :smiley:

And to those of you that have gotten bogus emails from “me”, i cant apologize enough.

Now lets run some trains, well maybe later for me I have work to do.

#2

Sorry to hear about your troubles.
I suggest you edit your post and remove the @ symbol in your email and replace it with the word “at”. I think Spam Bots may be able to pick it up as is.
Ralph

#3
Ralph Berg said:
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I suggest you edit your post and remove the @ symbol in your email and replace it with the word "at". I think Spam Bots may be able to pick it up as is. Ralph
Thanks Ralph, I didnt even think about that. sneeky little spam bots.
#4

Shawn,
If you have a Facebook account…dump it!
Personal experience tells me so. Do like the diesel powered coal/freight consist on your sight though.

#5

Shawn’
I also suggest that when you post your email address you go 1 further and also cap all letters in the email address. then note not to cap when emailing.
The spam bots wont pick up on that note and addresses are case sensitive.
Sorry to hear of you trouble.

Shawn Fields said:
Everyone, Unfortunately my main email acct. has been compromised and its been sending spam emails, heck i've even gotten a few myself to my back-up acct. I'm letting everyone here know that as of Noon today that acct will be closed and I can be reached at my new acct vgn700 at hotmail.com. I'll be updating all my online accts today.

Again I am sorry that my machine hasnt been playing nice with the world, and that some people in the world have nothing better to do with their time other than making other people miserable. I think they need a new more productive hobby, like Trains perhaps :smiley:

And to those of you that have gotten bogus emails from “me”, i cant apologize enough.

Now lets run some trains, well maybe later for me I have work to do.

#6

Shawn,

I am now starting to present email addresses as follows:

name[at]domain[dot]com

For now, this will confound the bots. Sooner or later they will catch on to this and another approach will need to be devised.

Good luck for now.

Bob C.