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

[Clay Dowling]

On 10/28/2010 01:07 AM, Chick Tower wrote:
> 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.

I get this kind of crap several times a day.  He's probably an actual 
dude, trying to raise money for something.  I've even gotten this kind 
of stuff from senators before (not Michigan senators), among others.