Is my email address visible?

[BigK]

Someone recently emailed me, saying they got my email address off the site.

I poked around in my profile and all, but can't seem to find a place that indicates whether my email is visible or not.

If it's visible to visitors, how can I hide it?

[TNcitizen22]

To my knowledge it is not visible.  I looked around your profile as well and didn't see anything.

[MarkInNashville]

Someone recently emailed me, saying they got my email address off the site.

I poked around in my profile and all, but can't seem to find a place that indicates whether my email is visible or not.

If it's visible to visitors, how can I hide it?

Don't see your email address (and I am a TGO friend).

[Oh Shoot]

Someone recently emailed me, saying they got my email address off the site.

I poked around in my profile and all, but can't seem to find a place that indicates whether my email is visible or not.

If it's visible to visitors, how can I hide it?

 

Sure the email wasn't just a notification of a PM?

 

Default is to receive PM notification via email (which also includes the message).

 

- OS

[TripleDigitRide]

What was the purposed of the email you received? Any chance that you posted it in one of your posts?

[BigK]

I'm reasonably sure I never posted my email in a thread. This was definitely NOT a PM notification email.

I had PM'd someone on here who said they were looking for some brass. Ironically, I didn't need to sell. I was just trying to help the guy out. I even went back to last year's threads to see what the going rate was before things got crazy and offered him that rate. In the process I gave him my email for PayPal pmt.

Next thing I know I'm getting an email from someone who heard I had brass for sale. He says he heard it from a guy, who I'm pretty sure got banned from here (name sounds familiar). The only way that guy could have heard it was from the guy I offered to sell to. I'm guessing he was actually looking for brass for a friend (banned TGO member), who was looking for brass for yet another friend or something like that.

Regardless, I suspected he got my email 3rd hand through the first 2 guys, but he claimed he joined TGO to find me and got my email address from the site, which sounded suspect to me. He seemed nice enough and apologized, but if my email isn't visible, he lied. So, I wanted to make sure it wasn't true. Edited March 9, 2013 by BigK

[BigK]

What was the purposed of the email you received? Any chance that you posted it in one of your posts?

First thing I did was use the search looking for my email in all forums. No results were found.

[mikegideon]

I can't see your email address. They didn't get it from your profile.

[BigK]

Thank you all for checking.

I feel better knowing I was lied to </1st time I ever said that>

[TGO David]

Nope... your email address is not visible to anyone other than the Staff and yourself.

[LenoirGunner]

Yea is it visible?

[TGO David]

Did you read the thread or just reply?