doublefire

Hey @iovamihai,

I was updating my plugins on my website and I saw the notification from Social Pug to sign up for OpenShareCount so that I could still get my shares on Twitter reported. I followed the link, and didn’t research the advice to sign up, though I should have. Social Pug has been a fine plugin and I took your word for it that your recommendation had been vetted (not smart; next time I’ll research the recommendation).

I filled out the sign up forms. About 6 hours later, I began to get emails delivered to my inbox (not filtered as spam or promotions, so the notifications showed up in my mobile notification center in the middle of the night) for people seeking work as web developers and offering to give me quotes on SEO things.

I can screenshot these emails if you’re interested.

The only thing that I can pinpoint as being the source for these spammy emails, which I’m still getting, but they’re now being filtered to spam, is that sign up to OpenShareCount. Unless GoDaddy is now in the business of selling my email address, but I’ve been with them for years and haven’t had problems. If you have another idea, let me know. I could be wrong. I’m not a web developer and I’m willing to accept that I might have made a mistake in the source of the problem.

Doublefire