Whoever You Are

It seems that someone calling themselves Poppy Jacobs has been spamming folk seeking to write for their websites. As Stonygound mentions in the comments, she is claiming that she is working with me. Let me assure you that she is not. I have never heard of Poppy Jacobs and if she contacts you claiming that she has some association with me, she is lying.

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  1. Because my knowledge of how the internet works is basic at best, I am curious as to how the connection between you and I is visible to the spammer. I comment regularly on your blog and my email address is there but not visible to readers. Did she follow my email address from your blog, or is she able to tell which sites I visit from this end? If it was the latter, why are you mentioned rather than, say, Diocles, OOL, Samizdata or the Diabetes support forum?

    • I don’t think we can read anything into it. The only way they could have got contact details from here is if you had your own website and they followed the back link. As you don’t they couldn’t. So, my guess is; it’s purely random.

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