PNW email scam?

Smokey Bear · Apr 3, 2024

Did anyone else get an email like this? I don’t trust it because I didn’t join on April 1st.
@Billy @Evan B @Josh

Tim L · Apr 3, 2024

Could just be the new Evan Camaro fund. You might be ok.

Josh · Apr 3, 2024

@Smokey Bear can you forward that email to info@pnwflyfishing.com? I'd like to take a look at it.

GOTY · Apr 3, 2024

I bet it's a link to buy @Irafly 's time share.

mcswny · Apr 3, 2024

Tim L said:
Could just be the new Evan Camaro fund. You might be ok.

Man, could you imagine @Evan B driving a Camaro?

Matt B · Apr 3, 2024

mcswny said:
Man, could you imagine @Evan B driving a Camaro?

Like a 1983 one with a trailer hitch? Maybe.

RCF · Apr 3, 2024

mcswny said:
Man, could you imagine @Evan B driving a Camaro?

If it was 2025, camaro's would be an EV. Maybe then but not before... Probably still would never happen...

FinLuver · Apr 3, 2024

Matt B said:
Like a 1983 one with a trailer hitch? Maybe.

And a CB whip antenna, bent over back to front.

RCF · Apr 3, 2024

If I remember correctly a lot of members over there got spammed shortly after the takeover. Part of selling info right after they took over to make money.

One of the BEST reasons to be a member here. That will never occur here for sure!

mcswny · Apr 3, 2024

Matt B said:
Like a 1983 one with a trailer hitch? Maybe.

With a minimum TWO engine swaps.

Smokey Bear · Apr 3, 2024

RCF said:
If I remember correctly a lot of members over there got spammed shortly after the takeover. Part of selling info right after they took over to make money.

One of the BEST reasons to be a member here. That will never occur here for sure!

What does your comment mean? I don’t understand.

You have me lost. What does this have to do with this site?
I don’t believe PNW would sell this site.

Evan B · Apr 4, 2024

Smokey Bear said:
What does your comment mean? I don’t understand. You have me lost. What does this have to do with this site?
I don’t believe PNW would sell this site.

Yeah we're definitely not selling the site or anyone's info. That we can promise you.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing fishy about this email. It's not about when you joined the site, but when your payments for Forum Supporter membership are scheduled.

But if you ever receive something like this and have questions, please forward it to info@pnwflyfishing.com so we can investigate it. Much easier for us to look at everything in an email vs a screenshot on here where we can't dig in to it.

Smokey Bear · Apr 4, 2024

Evan B said:
Yeah we're definitely not selling the site or anyone's info. That we can promise you.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing fishy about this email. It's not about when you joined the site, but when your payments for Forum Supporter membership are scheduled.

But if you ever receive something like this and have questions, please forward it to info@pnwflyfishing.com so we can investigate it. Much easier for us to look at everything in an email vs a screenshot on here where we can't dig in to it.

My iPad doesn’t want to open it. It warned me when I tried to open it, then had a second warning.
Was this generated from you?

FinLuver · Apr 4, 2024

Smokey Bear said:
My iPad doesn’t want to open it. It warned me when I tried to open it, then had a second warning.
Was this generated from you?
View attachment 109420 View attachment 109421

Heed the warnings…
Lots of “legit” looking stuff flyin’ around the internet these days.

Divad · Apr 4, 2024

Smokey Bear said:
My iPad doesn’t want to open it. It warned me when I tried to open it, then had a second warning.
Was this generated from you?
View attachment 109420 View attachment 109421

It looks to be the other site that got deprecated, I think it was for gear fishing. They (our mods) probably don’t want to pay for the ssl certificate anymore as it’s a site not used.

This is likely because you were a supporter over there first and you’re getting renew links from it.

NO THREAT EVERYONE!

Evan B · Apr 4, 2024

Smokey Bear said:
My iPad doesn’t want to open it. It warned me when I tried to open it, then had a second warning.
Was this generated from you?
View attachment 109420 View attachment 109421

Yeah forward this to us please info@pnwflyfishing.com - like I said, we can't investigate anything from a screenshot.

It does appear to be from the dot net site though. I'll make sure you don't get charged for that.

Smokey Bear · Apr 4, 2024

Evan B said:
Yeah forward this to us please info@pnwflyfishing.com - like I said, we can't investigate anything from a screenshot.

It does appear to be from the dot net site though. I'll make sure you don't get charged for that.

Sent it yesterday at 8:22 pm

Evan B · Apr 4, 2024

Smokey Bear said:
Sent it yesterday at 8:22 pm

Hmm not showing up in the inbox.

I any case: looks like the membership from the other site would expire on April 1 based on when you donated there. You got an alert but it doesn't differentiate which site it's for unless you click the link which is to the defunct site with no SSL cert which tripped your browser's security warning.

In short: it can be ignored and all is well. Nothing fishy going on just was a little confusing.

Smokey Bear · Apr 4, 2024

Evan B said:
Hmm not showing up in the inbox.

I any case: looks like the membership from the other site would expire on April 1 based on when you donated there. You got an alert but it doesn't differentiate which site it's for unless you click the link which is to the defunct site with no SSL cert which tripped your browser's security warning.

In short: it can be ignored and all is well. Nothing fishy going on just was a little confusing.

Didn’t mean to stir anything up. Now I understand. I didn’t pay close enough attention to site name.
Makes sense now. Thanks! And thanks @Divad you noticed the old site.