This morning I was publicly called out as a spammer because my handle was mentioned as a reference in an email that someone on these boards received.

I won't go into details of that thread, as it was righteously pulled and I apologize to those of you that read it and saw me lose my composure towards my accuser. I also want to thank those who tried to interject.

The person who accused me forwarded me a copy of the email which doesn't have me or my email in the header, but once again, it does reference my handle in the text.

I'm not sure if it's a spammer or someone having some kind of fun (???), but the party in question goes by the name Chris Lookinghaus with an email of clook4545 @ yahoo . com.

I want to make it known that I do not know anyone by that name or handle, nor do I endorse him or any products.

Please be carefull because this party did email me late this afternoon thanking me for giving him more emails - I believe this is a direct reference to the thread wherein my accuser posting emails of other members on his thread.

Once again - I am not a spammer, I do not knowingly associate with them, nor do I endorse them.

I'm not going to get into another pissing contest about this subject. And I will not respond to my earlier accuser as his mind is made up and he doesn't understand reason.

I'm posting this thread as a warning to be careful and if you have any questions regarding this or any "references" from me, shoot me an email at J.Redleg at Gmail dot com

I forgot to mention that I have never emailed nor did I have the email address for my accuser.

This Clook character must have gotten the email addy somewhere else and used my name and the names of two other people as a reference.

Saw it. You're still cool with me, bro.

Your accuser, on the otherhand... is a douche-bag.

Tried searching out this guy on yahoo since I've been using yahoo for years, and found nothing using that name, e-mail address and user name. Sorry.

... I concur.

Thank you Slim.

JR, when you have a moment, can you forward this e-mail to me so I can further examine it? Thanks.

Stefan

Many, if not most of us believe very little of what we see on face value. Innocent until proven . . . .

Carry on brother.

Tuck

I doubt this needs to be said, but I should have been around earlier to say this:

John is a good man. He and I get together for a good smoke whenever it is possible for both of us, and he brings nothing but good conversation and good times to the table. Spam would never be his style, and I know he is being honest here.

Stefan

Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate the support. But I posted this thread to alert fellow members of a possible spammer / email fisher (I think that's the term).

post #3.

That a$$wipe ain't got noithin' on ya. You're good to go bro!

I want to make it known that my accuser emailed me and offered a sincere apology. He is unable to post on the forums, but he ok'd me to post his email.

I don't need to do that, I accept the apology - let's move on.

I'm glad there is a positive end to this so far.

As for the spammer..........

I never doubted ya JR

Carry On, Brother . . .

j,

When this thread closes check your paypal. I just sent you a payment for the rest of those addresses.....

:)

What MACS said (post #3).

I saw the thread and almost ripped into it but I fought off the urge.

A few years ago someone got a hold of my daughters email info and was sending pornographic emails out using her ID. She got some nasty emails back and had no idea what they were talking about. It was weird, you could see these messages popping up while looking at the sent menu. There were a lot of them. We never found out how it happened but AOL worked with us and we got it cleared up but needless to say she was a wreck. People got really nasty with her. I even called the one person back and apologized and told them it wasn't her but they were still really nasty. I would be upset to get that kind of email too but people have to realize that ID's are taken all the time. What appears on the surface isn't always the truth.

JR, don't worry about this a$$. You are a class BOTL.

This is one more good reason why you should change your passwords every now and then.

I also received an email from this "Clook" guy but he sent it to my other Yahoo email (that I posted in the forums once). He is someone on the C-Bid forums messing with us. He told me that his name (Clook) is actually an English word for "unplugging a cigar." This is not spam people! It is some guy with nothing better to do except to mess with us and get our blood boiling. Spammers do not reply to emails and they sure as hell don't have conversations about cigars via email. LOL!

I believe Karen explained it very well in the thread that was deleted. The person causing the problem was caught and dealt with. The problem is that the person accusing Redleg of causing it was way out of line and would not listen to reason. I will stop there because John has settled with him. John should not have had to worry over this but did. That is the loss. Moving on now. Just wanted to give a short run of Karen's findings.