[GLLUG] Fwd: Bob Brewer added your name to the Academia.edu directory of academics

[Chick Tower]

Did anyone else get a message like this?  I suspect our mailing list has 
been harvested for some kind of phishing attempt or something, since 
Open Source Initiatives is part of the LONG name of his "department", 
even though he is an "independent researcher".  The website appears to 
be legitimate, and he has over twenty followers, but I don't recall any 
Bob Brewer.

                     Chick

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Bob Brewer added your name to the Academia.edu directory of 
academics
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:11:20 -0700
From: Bob Brewer <bobbrew at gmail.com>
To: c.e.tower at gmail.com

Hi Chick,

Bob Brewer added your name to Academia.edu, the global directory of 
academics and graduate students. We checked your department directory, 
and it looks like you are an academic/graduate student. You are 
currently listed as an 'unknown' academic/graduate student: resolve your 
'unknown' status by following one of the links below:
...
Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Noam Chomsky and Steven 
Pinker have all recently confirmed their membership of their departments 
on Academia.edu.

Many thanks,
The Academia.edu Team

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