I noticed the contact email I use for my Fool Community discussions board presence here started getting spam from various entities that are all tied to a firm claiming to be Stark Media LLC, 222 Delaware Street, Suite 2071 in New Castle, DE 19720.
So far, on 9/29 and 9/30, I’ve received the following emails:
Eric Matthews [via BCD] If you dread monday mornings, this might change that
Matt Hampton from TFV Trump’s Hidden Energy Plan
Matt Hampton from TFV 10 Best Stocks to Own in 2024
Martin Foster [ET News] Libs Hate This Kamala Harris Bombshell [ Shocking Details]
Martin Foster [ET News] Why this Miracle Material Will Change Everything
The email address that received these is one I ONLY use as my contact email on The Motley Fool. The email address doesn’t appear on my blog. The domain is not that of a dominant ISP, telco or cable firm. I don’t use it to send email to others for it to be discovered in someone else’s mailbox or address book after being infected with a virus. Other than being synthesized by a “dictionary attack” bascially randomly guessing the full email address, the only way anyone could have gotten this email address is if the Fool gave it to them or if it was exfiltrated out of the Fool’s environment.
Is the Fool selling our contact information to other companies? All of these emails so far have always pitched a financial / investing angle to get the recipient to read the email but the content is clearly pump and dump scams with a dose of political fear and doubt mixed in.
WTH