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I've just received the following e-mail:

Dear Site Member,

Fair Processing Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

We are writing to let you know that with effect from 27 January 2016, the Slashdot Media business, which provides e-mail alerts and information campaigns and online services through our e-mail lists and various web sites including Slashdot.org and SourceForge.net (the "Slashdot Media Services") has been purchased by SourceForge Media LLC of 1660 Logan Avenue, San Diego, California, 92113, USA ("we" or "us").

As a result your personal data have been transferred to us and will be used in connection with the continued provision of the Slashdot Media Services to you. Your personal data will continue to be processed fairly and lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 for the same purposes as those it was originally collected by Dice Career Solutions Inc and/or eFinancialCareers Limited including to:

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Yours sincerely,

Logan Abbott
The team at SourceForge Media LLCGeeknet Inc

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To unsubscribe, send an email to: unsubscribe-313808@elabs10.com with the address: *****@*******.***com in the subject line.

I am totally mystified by this because googling seems to suggest that the organisations named are legitimate but I am not aware of having had ANY dealings with any of them.

Has anyone else had one of these messages?
I'm inclined to think it's some kind of scam which has used a legitimate organisation as a "cover"

In reply to FesteringSore:

Looks like you've registered for Slashdot at some point in the past with that email (or someone else has) and they are sending you the required data protection email since Sourceforge bought them. They are both real sites/entities and Slashdot was indeed sold recently.

Unfortunately /. has been shit for a few years now and it's not gonna get any better with new owners.

Just ignore the email.

In reply to Removed User:




I've never heard of them before. Who are they/what do they do?

In reply to FesteringSore:
I had the same email a little while back. They are a technical news site

http://slashdot.org

I stopped reading them a few years back when they had a site redesign and couldn't find a damn thing.


(Edit to fix the link)

In reply to FesteringSore:

Definitely a scam IMO. I would delete it and not reply.

In reply to FesteringSore:

If they had a legitimate registration record from you, rather than just having bought a list of active email addresses to spam, they would have addressed you by name or by username rather than saying "Dear Site Member".

In reply to john arran:


Yes, that thought did arise.

In reply to abseil:

First, it's not a scam. Second, it's not asking him to do anything or give any information .. so exactly what is it you think they are trying to scam from the guy?

The email address is simply registered for Slashdot and they are updating him. I got one as well as I'm a member there too. There's no need to spread FUD when you're doing nothing more than guessing.

edit: spleling