When multiple listserv members receive the same "mistake," we all need to consider the probabliity that it's not a mistake. It's inconceivable that several of us would be in the same person's addressbook. Especially since I live in Oregon, have never posted to Tweeters before and have only been on Tweeters for about 6 weeks. I simply don't see how anyone on Tweeters could have my e-mail address. A further interesting note: although my husband and I get Tweeters at different e-mail addresses, he too got this spam.

Conventional wisdom is NOT to click on a link from someone unknown. Delete the e-mail ASAP without opening it.

Marti Ligocki
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Hoffman
To: garybletsch at yahoo.com ; tweeters tweeters
Cc: tweeters-owner at mailman2.u.washington.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] possible Tweeters spam


I received it, too. Plaxo.com looks like social networking but I didn't dig into the site to evaluate it. Most likely this email was generated automatically from someone's address book. So probably a harmless error (or lapse in judgment) rather than a scam, virus, etc. Still, that person should be educated by Tweeters the list owner, whom I'm cc'ing, so they are aware of what was probably their mistake.

Marc Hoffman
Kirkland, WA
tweeters "at" dartfrogmedia "dot" com

At 10:02 AM 3/7/2009, Gary Bletsch wrote:


At any rate, a person going by the name of Nancy Lander sent me a message via Tweeters, inviting me to join them on Plaxo. Is this legit, or is this some sort of online scam?


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