Spam

I received a spam to a unique email address that only this site has about "Our website [link removed] is a site of photos of shoes, bags and accessories".

Sounds like DPreview was compromised and our email address were released to the wild.

Yes I got that same spam email. ? They even have "Dpreview" in the subject line. Never have seen anything like that in all my years here.
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Olga

I didn't get it. If I do, I will report it here.

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Visible, Predictable, Alert, Assertive and Courteous

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Chris, Broussard, LA

I got the same email. Looked like an Italian? website.

The one factor common to all respondents in this thread who've reported getting this email is that you've made your email addresses 'visible to registered users'. Sadly this means that a sufficiently determined spammer can harvest your address simply by registering for these forums then looking at your profiles one-by-one. It's a laborious manual process, but entirely possible, and that's what appears to have happened here.

Now we have private messaging, there's much less reason than before to keep your email visible, so you may prefer to hide it and (hopefully) stop this happening again.
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Andy Westlake
dpreview.com

Wow, I never saw that before. I would never willingly make my email available to thousands..

Andy Westlake said:

The one factor common to all respondents in this thread who've reported getting this email is that you've made your email addresses 'visible to registered users'.

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So it's a common sense scenario, as I suspected.

Thanks for looking into this and posting the relevant information. It serves as a reminder to those who exercise a little diligence and it teaches those who don't to, well, exercise a little diligence.

Andy Westlake said:

Now we have private messaging, there's much less reason than before to keep your email visible, so you may prefer to hide it and (hopefully) stop this happening again.
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Thanks for the suggestion.

Went to hide my email address and found notification via email for participating threads. How did I miss that? When did that start?

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Olga