Judging by the fact that I’m not the only one who received the exact same message today, I guess someone figured out how to harvest emails from GitHub repositories. Probably from the readme files people post or from some metadata in the repositories (the email address is part of the username in the commit history).

I don’t understand how the originator of this spam attack thought that someone will fall for that, but oh well.

Hopefully next time Gmail’s spam filter will catch this kind of spam.

Arik