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WARNING: Someone is spoofing dotTech’s email to send spam, don’t be fooled!
Hi dotTechies,
I just wanted to give everyone a head-up that some scumbag is using dotTech’s email to spend spam emails.
If you receive an e-mail from “admin@dottech.org” that is not characteristic of the emails we send (i.e. not an article or comment notification), then the email is probably spam. [...]
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