mjoalicefrancis@hotmail.com is a scammer

I got an atheistzone email from her(?) wanting to be friends and exchange photos. I routinely check out stuff like this and, sure enough, googling her email address reveals her to be a scammer.

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Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on August 23, 2015 at 3:55pm

You are one of Dog's chosen people!

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Permalink Reply by Richard E. Robertson on August 24, 2015 at 1:20pm

From Atheist Zone? How is that possible? AZ redirects here last I knew.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 24, 2015 at 2:00pm

The address may have been harvested earlier and then spoofed.

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Permalink Reply by Richard E. Robertson on August 24, 2015 at 4:26pm

Actually, AZ is no longer redirecting. I just logged in there. Which is good because I had planned on supporting the site. If we can find a way to migrate all the goodies and stuff from here to there, THIS site should have the redirect. :p

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 24, 2015 at 5:24pm

Spoofing email addresses is easy. For one thing, you can go here to do it online or you can download zmail to do it on your computer. The sent from domain doesn't even have to exist. Thus you could send from AtheistZoneSucksAss.com as easily as from one that does like WhiteHouse.gov.

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Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on August 24, 2015 at 5:32pm

I've started working on tips for how to help copy stuff over without violating Ning TA contract. It's pretty basic right now, but I started two AZ groups that will improve over time:

AZ Tips, and TA Gold.

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Permalink Reply by Belle Rose on August 24, 2015 at 3:07pm

I got the message too.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on August 25, 2015 at 12:38am

What was your first clue? :)

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 25, 2015 at 1:18am

You talkin' to me? It stank for lots of reasons.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on August 25, 2015 at 12:40am

Maybe we should all send her a pic of Wiener's wiener. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Richard E. Robertson on August 29, 2015 at 1:49pm

Well, this is unexpected. She showed up in my mailbox about 5 hours ago:

faith sent you a new message:

Subject: hi

"I saw your profile and decided to contact you in good faith. my name is Alice I am, working with the United Nations. I'm from Florida in the United States. I believe we are in a small world, and if we can be friends, then one day we may have the opportunity to meet and know ourselves more. Good friends mean a lot to me and I trust you will be one. Thank you and have a nice day.You can contact me through my private email so that i will send you my pictures because I did not stay in place at a time: (mjoalicefrancis@hotmail.com)

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To view and read your messages please log in and visit: http://atheistzone.com/members/basketcasesoftware/messages/

Of course the link to the message doesn't work. How is this spambot getting in? I'm suspecting it's accessing the site control panel somehow and searching through names... nope, maybe not. The email header has it coming from "host.centermovement.org" Who is AZ's host?