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

[Brent Barker]

I got an invite from academia.edu a year or more back. It does seem like a
legit site. I categorized it the same box as linkedin for my purposes. That
is, I'm not on either.

 --Brent

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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