Is anybody else receiving odd e-mails from CB?

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Sun, 2008-03-30 19:26.

Member's Forum

I am getting e-mails supposedly from CreativeBits telling me that a post that I subscribed to has been updated, but when I click on the link, it brings me to a really weird site.

See below:

http://sh3.2bits.com/tier_3

What on earth is this site??? Is someone stealing the threads from CB and posting them on their own site? I'm not too happy about this.

Anybody know what gives?
Suzanne

Oh, and I also noticed

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Sun, 2008-03-30 19:28.

that the threads are NOT recent. They're from 2007.

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

OK, now my inbox is filling up with this crap!!!

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Sun, 2008-03-30 19:30.

Ivan,

WTF is going on? Any ideas?

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

This happened to me too.

Submitted by natobasso on Sun, 2008-03-30 19:42.

This happened to me too. It's someone spamming old posts with their directory information. Just unsubscribe from those threads and report the spammer to Ivan (feedback link).

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likewise

Submitted by sidesey on Sun, 2008-03-30 20:23.

likewise, glad i am not alone....

I can't even blacklist it

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Sun, 2008-03-30 20:47.

because it's the same e-mail address as CreativeBits. How are they able to do this??? I tried to go into my server and blacklist it, but if I did, then I wouldn't receive any legitimate e-mail from CB.

Do these people actually think we're stupid enough to sign up for their "copied" site??? Pathetic.

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

My bad!

Submitted by Ivan on Sun, 2008-03-30 20:56.

Hi guys! I'm so sorry, we've had a test site. No more emails. If that's not the case please let me know asap!

Oh...so it is from you, Ivan?

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Sun, 2008-03-30 21:00.

I just received an e-mail about 15 minutes ago. Just so you know...

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

Apologies

Submitted by kbahey on Sun, 2008-03-30 21:01.

Sorry folks. We are testing some upgrades to the site, and the test system had email enabled. We disabled it and you should not get any emails from it again.

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Thanks!!!!

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Sun, 2008-03-30 21:08.

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

got one three minutes ago, was that the last ;-)

Submitted by sidesey on Sun, 2008-03-30 21:12.

got one three minutes ago, was that the last ;-)

I got one too

Submitted by GrAcUc79 on Mon, 2008-03-31 02:16.

Hey guys i received one today as well from creativebits.org the email stated:

Greetings, GrAcUc79.

A thread to which you have subscribed has been updated.
Take Out Menu

To view the thread, navigate to http://sh3.2bits.com/take_out_menu

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This is an automatic message from creativebits.
To manage your subscriptions, browse to http://sh3.2bits.com/subscriptions

The link seemed very suspicious as if someone is phishing for our passwords. Glad to hear it was something Ivan does know about and not some hacker trying to get us.

FYI mine was sent at 2:30PM

Got four of them earlier

Submitted by mara06 on Mon, 2008-03-31 02:49.

Got four of them earlier today. Odd.

Mara

I got 104 emails. That was

Submitted by natobasso on Mon, 2008-03-31 04:38.

I got 104 emails. That was some test! :)

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Powerpoint is not a design application

I received 17

Submitted by onegirlcreative on Mon, 2008-03-31 14:12.

Doesn't seem nearly as much as Nato's, but it was annoying, nevertheless.

suzanne maestri-walters :: graphic designer :: www.onegirlcreative.com

Yup, just got two of them...

Submitted by plugz on Mon, 2008-03-31 15:03.

Yup, just got two of them...

Apologies again ...

Submitted by kbahey on Mon, 2008-03-31 21:13.

Apologies again to all.

We are planning an upgrade for this site, and to do that, we don't want to mess with the live site. So we put a copy of the site on a test server to see how those upgrades will go. In the background, the subscription got triggered and emails started going out.

The last message went out of the test server at Mar 30 15:47:46 (Eastern Daylight time).

So, if you get other messages it has to be dated before that, and delayed somewhere between mail server. So, give it a day or two for those lost in the middle to trickle down.

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