Some advice please?

[JudgeDredd]

I had an email request from someone from here  I think (the email said stnickel@web.de longblade@grogheads.com?) saying he has the Battle of Britain boardgame and telling me he does not have various components and wanting me to send them to him in electronic format

The first thing is, I thought that a bit weird that someone would have the boardgame but be missing the key documents. The second thing that I was wondering was - is it a problem to supply that info? If he's missing these documents...for whatever reason...is giving him them such a bad thing? What harm can be done? He must have the game surely - the documents are useless without the chits and map.

So I was just curious as to how to handle this...

Thanks

[Staggerwing]

Not sure what the email addy portends... Longblade is here in the USA, not in Germany (web.de?). It sounds fishy.

But- if he doesn't have the documentation but does have the 'chits and map' then perhaps he has only a VASSAL module. This might be freely available though the documentation is not.

It could be hard to determine if this fellow is legit. Could you ask him to email you a photo of the components with a piece of paper in the middle showing his email addy? It could be 'shopped in but it's better than nothing.

[Jarhead0331]

All private message email notifications from this website are sent through longblade's email address. There is nothing out of the ordinary about that. With respect to the rest of the request, you have to use your best judgment and follow your gut.

[skeptical.platypus]

Does that mean the NSA thinks Longblade sent all those PMs?

[JudgeDredd]

Ok. Cool. Thanks.