scam??

Hi All
Anybody else had an email from somebody calling himself Ken who infers he is
representing an organisation (but not saying what it is) asking for all
sorts of information about your dive club and contacts in order to be listed
on his new website? It was addressed to me at my graham@marlinsac.org.uk
address and is obviously targeted at divers. I'm sure there are ways of
harvesting email addresses from diving websites, but to address it *Dear
BSAC Member* suggests to me he knows I'm a BSAC member, unless it's a
standard spam.
Doesn't read like an altruistic enterprise to me anyway but I'm not sure
what the *scam* is!
Anyway, I've copied it to an unlinked page on our club website.
http://www.marlinsac.org.uk/scam.html
Thoughts?
Cheers
Graham
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"Graham Bowers" <graham@nospam.frzzserve.co.uk> wrote ...

> Anybody else had an email from somebody calling himself Ken who infers he
is
> representing an organisation (but not saying what it is) asking for all
> sorts of information about your dive club and contacts in order to be
listed
> on his new website? It was addressed to me at my graham@marlinsac.org.uk
> address and is obviously targeted at divers. I'm sure there are ways of
> harvesting email addresses from diving websites, but to address it *Dear
> BSAC Member* suggests to me he knows I'm a BSAC member, unless it's a
> standard spam.
> Doesn't read like an altruistic enterprise to me anyway but I'm not sure
> what the *scam* is!
> Anyway, I've copied it to an unlinked page on our club website.
> http://www.marlinsac.org.uk/scam.html
> Thoughts?
> Cheers
> Graham

Hi Graham

I can assure you that this is nothing to do with the BSAC, but it wouldn't
be the first time that address harvesters have been at work on our club
sites either.

Can you please ATTACH a copy of the original email in an email to me
(attach, don't just forward it - I need the email headers). If this is some
scam or just somebody trying to build content for a commercial site then I
would like to know about it if they are targeting our clubs. If necessary I
will put out a club wide warning about it.

Thanks for letting everybody know about it, appreciated.

Keith Lawrence
BSAC Council Member
BSAC IT Team Leader
mailto:keith.lawrence@bsac.com

> Anybody else had an email from somebody calling himself Ken who infers he
is
> representing an organisation (but not saying what it is) asking for all
> sorts of information about your dive club and contacts in order to be
listed
> on his new website? It was addressed to me at my graham@marlinsac.org.uk
> address and is obviously targeted at divers. I'm sure there are ways of
> harvesting email addresses from diving websites, but to address it *Dear
> BSAC Member* suggests to me he knows I'm a BSAC member, unless it's a
> standard spam.
> Doesn't read like an altruistic enterprise to me anyway but I'm not sure
> what the *scam* is!

Yeah, we got that (subaqua@...warwick...). Never thought much of it - ours
was our public club e-mail address, so I assumed he just got it from the
details on the BSAC website. Is your address public on your club website or
on BSAC contact details or anything?

David

"Keith Lawrence" <false@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3fb7830e$0$52884$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk.. .
>
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> Can you please ATTACH a copy of the original email in an email to me
> (attach, don't just forward it - I need the email headers). If this is
some
> scam or just somebody trying to build content for a commercial site then I
> would like to know about it if they are targeting our clubs. If necessary
I
> will put out a club wide warning about it.
>
> Thanks for letting everybody know about it, appreciated.
>
> Keith Lawrence
> BSAC Council Member
> BSAC IT Team Leader
> mailto:keith.lawrence@bsac.com
>
emailed

[My thanks to Graham for the email]

See http://www.bsacforum.co.uk/forums/cl...osts/1882.html

I'm treating this as SPAM or a scam until proved otherwise.

Keith Lawrence
BSAC Council Member
BSAC IT Team Leader