Thanks to all the efforts by our mods to address this issue. I am one of those who has rarely posted - came here a while ago when I was looking for information about Blake's Lock (when I got some useful information thanks) but not posted since. So when I got an email from canal world I had forgotten totally that the forum existed and had to visit here to work out it was a spam as the PM told me nothing. My hunch that it was a spam was right, and I don't need any d***ed bit coins!
By the way my email address (but not the username or password) is actually used on a different forum that was hacked recently. But I doubt many members of that one would be lurkers here so probably just a coincidence.
Not a boater, just a casual member of the public. But very genuine hi....