Everyone knows this occurs, and I feel like it's something that few realize the origin of the matter.
A few months ago, I created a new e-mail account, and posted it in ONE thread on Sythe in the middleman forums. I wanted it to be used for nothing but MMing, obviously, and so it was a brand new account, never used anywhere else.
Well, circumstances changed, I never used the account, forgot about it, etc.
Today I logged into my e-mail to roughly 20 phishing e-mails and a gmail welcome letter. Needless to say, Sythe was obviously the source of such and made me wonder exactly how safe the users who post their emails are, not to mention those who put them in their signature.
As I browse my 10 different hotmail accounts, I notice a trend dating back several years of phishing emails. The only ones with a mass number of such are those that were at one point connected with my Sythe account.
Suggestions should be made to fix this situation. Maybe restrict the viewing of e-mails to registered members only, or something. It's clearly done by a robot, and on this scale it'd have to be done by an unregistered user.
Sythe has lots of downtime issues, and something like this could be very resource intensive. I believe doing something about this would benefit us all greatly.
E: This is not in suggestions as I haven't a full solution to the problem, I'm merely pointing out the existence of a problem
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A few months ago, I created a new e-mail account, and posted it in ONE thread on Sythe in the middleman forums. I wanted it to be used for nothing but MMing, obviously, and so it was a brand new account, never used anywhere else.
Well, circumstances changed, I never used the account, forgot about it, etc.
Today I logged into my e-mail to roughly 20 phishing e-mails and a gmail welcome letter. Needless to say, Sythe was obviously the source of such and made me wonder exactly how safe the users who post their emails are, not to mention those who put them in their signature.
As I browse my 10 different hotmail accounts, I notice a trend dating back several years of phishing emails. The only ones with a mass number of such are those that were at one point connected with my Sythe account.
Suggestions should be made to fix this situation. Maybe restrict the viewing of e-mails to registered members only, or something. It's clearly done by a robot, and on this scale it'd have to be done by an unregistered user.
Sythe has lots of downtime issues, and something like this could be very resource intensive. I believe doing something about this would benefit us all greatly.
E: This is not in suggestions as I haven't a full solution to the problem, I'm merely pointing out the existence of a problem
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) so I wont comment on whether updating the board would be beneficial, but this should definitely be fixed. I think realpoor has emails hidden to unregistered users and we should implement the same.
