Please look after your privacy, we can't do it for you!

Hermia

LJM wrote: »

ive recently had people posting pictures up of my daughter on facebook which made me very angry and cross, i dont post private info or pics of my children on anywhere as i feel it is private, some poor children have their life history on a facebook page. so thanks for the info i am always very careful or try to be about what i say or write.

I hate the fact that other people are so careless like this. I am very careful with my information online, especially as I was stalked in my last job. But, I have lost count of the times I have seen photos of me with my full name (and even town and place of work) underneath posted on Facebook or Flickr etc. It's now just seen as totally normal and okay to put all your photos from a party or night out all over the internet without asking permission from the people in them.

getmore4less

Don't be the same persona in to many places, on line or in real life.

Definately try to keep your real life and true identity on the internet seperate from as many others as possible.

If you put information in the public domain then expect it could go anywhere else and possibly linked to your* vitual you.
(thats anywhere on the internet nothing is really private even email)


A usefull trick is when chosing a name for a new board is to look at another similar board and reuse a name from.
This will mix up the info when people do searches.
Another is to use something similar to a public or historic person.
Another is to just become a new poster(allthough posing style will usualy give the locals a head start) stop using the old user and never repost followups with the new name.

Edinburghlass_2

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I too wish people would be more careful. It's not unusual to see somone post their name, photo, hometown and place of employment over the course of a few posts. Add into the mix the information that you live alone and it really becomes risky.

I hope your post makes more people safety aware.

I would add to this the fact that people put their location in their profile and the names and dates of birth of children in their signature. A signature is on every post across the board and can be read by everyone.

mintymoneysaver

I'm a bit concerned that today I've received an email addressed to my MSE name to my email address. I haven't got my email address on my contact information.

It's from 'moneyexpert' and gone to my spam folder but it just shows how much people can find out...

fermi

mintymoneysaver wrote: »

I'm a bit concerned that today I've received an email addressed to my MSE name to my email address. I haven't got my email address on my contact information.

It's from 'moneyexpert' and gone to my spam folder but it just shows how much people can find out...

Same here.

I've never signed up to emails from them, and there is no way they should have the email address they used. :undecided

SugarSpun

I forwarded the one I received to abuse; I think this is a leak in the security of the site and should be addressed urgently.

MSE are definitely responsible for the security of the data they keep even if they can't police the boards to remove Facebook pictures etc. I seriously hope that this will not be the start of a flood of similar emails which will then address the size of my penis and suggest I help out a Nigerian prince by lending him my bank account

fermi

SugarSpun wrote: »

I forwarded the one I received to abuse; I think this is a leak in the security of the site and should be addressed urgently.

MSE are definitely responsible for the security of the data they keep even if they can't police the boards to remove Facebook pictures etc. I seriously hope that this will not be the start of a flood of similar emails which will then address the size of my penis and suggest I help out a Nigerian prince by lending him my bank account

Well, I've had one to both of the email addresses I've used for this forum.

Also very concerning is that the emails do not have any link to the real site they claim to have come from, but DO have a link to a zip file to download claiming to be "Download "MoneyExpert News-Tool".

That has got to be hugely dodgy. I can't imagine any legitimate email doing that.

I'm going to post on the site feedback board with this I think.

SugarSpun

I noticed my email had a VAT registration number on the bottom so I googled it and came up with this. It seems to be a legitimate company that's sent out a mail shot to email addresses it's acquired from somewhere - can it be that MSE has sold our email addresses? This is the only site I've used my primary email address for since I wanted to sign up to the weekly email at the same time, and I always click the "no third party" sites.

May we have an explanation please?

cjt105

I've also had one, to an email address I use exclusively for this forum.

I am seriously unhappy. Either, MSE has sold out, or they've been hacked. :mad:

I suggest that we try to establish how many people are involved, and then hand the matter over to the information commissioners office, who can investigate, and if necessarily take legal action against both MSE and the spammers, as this is a clear breach of the data protection act.

@Martin, your immediate response on this is required - email me if you need further information.


Chris.

fermi

SugarSpun wrote: »

I noticed my email had a VAT registration number on the bottom so I googled it and came up with this.

Doesn't mean that it actually came from them. It's very easy to spoof the "from" address in an email.

Linking to a zip file download not hosted on MoneyExpert's site looks hugely dodgy.