Nik

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I usually post these PSAs once or twice a year. Please be mindful of leaving your personal info in profile posts as well as regular posts and threads.

I'm noticing a number of email addresses, and phone numbers in profile posts and regular posts. Profile posts are public, viewable by all including unregistered users and are crawled by search bots/spiders (google and more nefarious ones) many times a day. This means bad actors can, will and likely already have lifted that info from our public facing pages which might explain why duct cleaning is suddenly a hot topic on your voicemail :) In all seriousness do be mindful of info you leave. CCF will not actively moderate, mask nor be held liable for any damages you may incur as a result of info you have elected to put on a public facing page so keep that in mind. What you deem 'private' and confidential is up to you. Personally I would avoid leaving even my email address in a post (or at the very least have a public/spam email addy that isn't tied to anything important).

Private Messages (Private Conversations) are private and never crawled by bots so you're safer exchanging private info via that channel.
 

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