Often it has nothing to do with the person whose e-mail address is used. If he has ever exchanged e-mails with someone who has an infected computer, it can just as easily come from there according to the folks at my ISP.
Often the "virus" looks through the e-mail addresses stored on the machine it has infected and chooses one at random to spoof as the originator. It may use a number of addresses it finds on that machine but seldom the actual e-mail address associated with that user. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- It looks to me as if Bob's email account has been compromised by the scammers, most likely due to a virus on his PC but possibly due to Bob using a weak password on the email account. I'm trying to get in touch with Bob via my ham friends in the UK. 73, Gary ZL2iFB and security awareness freak by day ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
