Have you notified the person the emailer was inquiring about?


>At this point, here's what I'll provide:
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>The email claimed to be from an independent Consultant in Vancouver. He claimed to be checking out the UT for a certain developer (a UT member) that he was asked to get into a project he had going. He asked me my opinions on the UT member...he went so far as to express what he perceived as a potentially "non-positive" trait of the UT member, and essentially asked if I felt the same way about the UT member.
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>He also went on to ask if I'd ever worked with the UT member on a project, and if I knew the member personally.
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>I received this email last week....at the time, I couldn't tell for sure if it was a legitimate email or a "scam"....but in the interest of giving any kind of response, I answered the specific questions on whether I'd ever worked with the person and whether I knew the member personally (gave either yes/no answers). But that was it.
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>In the last few days, I grew more suspicious, especially since I couldn't find the person as a UT member. The specific statements he made in the email suggests that he probably had read more than a few posts. In additon, the person never replied back to me, even when I sent subsequent messages asking for more information from the person.
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>So at this point, while I'm still hopeful that this is somehow legit, my doubts have increased. (I'm not worried about my first reply, as I gave two factual yes/no replies that no one could possibly dispute). But I'm increasingly suspicious that someone was either playing a joke, or actually seeing what I would say. Another forum member sent me a link to another site that contained a reference to the same base email name, with enough specifics that I wondered whether we had possibly "found our man"....but again, I can't say for certain.