OT: Disgruntled loonies on the forum?

[Rob Strand]

The other day I pulled in some emails on the email address for my old site (which is essentially closed).

I received an email which invited me to visit some sort of schematic site.   (I think it was sent in late october - I don't look at that email address often.)

Unfortunately (well maybe not so unfortunately) I delete the email so I can't post a link.

From what I remember the front page of the site had a picture which was a bizarre collage of computer generated pictures.  On the picture was hand draw circuit path around the figures in a semi-sexual manner - as soon as I saw it  I suspected the morons were loose again.  There was some other text on the page but I didn't read it.

Down the bottom was a set of links.  I clicked on one of the links and saw words like "Gay" and "Child Pornography" on the page; at which point the intent of the email was obvious and I didn't bother going further.

It was obviously effects and circuit related so it's probably someone here, or perhaps, a disgruntled net surfer who wanted stuff from my site.

Anyone else get one of these little treasures?   I can't imagine someone would go though all that trouble just for me .

[brett]

Hi.
No disgruntled loonies....just us regular loonies.

Sorry for being flippant.  If you get anything like this again, check the e-mail header for details of the server from which it was posted.  If it was in the US, Europe, Australia you might be able to cross-check with registration details for the forum or alert local authorities.  Unfortunately, a lot of this stuff comes from eastern Europe, Asia, Latin america and places where there's basically no chance of getting anything done.

[Hal]

I'm surprised we get so little of that stuff here.  I also post on another electronics forum, and we get "FREE IPOD!" spam almost daily.