Colleagues, No website breaches or mail account hacking is required for these kinds of scams. All someone needs is to scrape your email address from a public website (think LinkedIn, but a corporate site can be it too). Once you have that it’s a pretty easy job to spoof someone’s email. Doug Nix [email protected] +1 (519) 729-5704
> On 29-Mar-19, at 18:01, John Allen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve had several probably “nasty” emails from sources that appeared to have > spoofed some of the email addresses used by myself and several people that I > know, but please don’t confuse me with John R Allen of Product Safety Inc. > > FWIW, I don’t think the data breach in question was specific to UK email > addresses because there was a huge one a few months ago of a web address > data base on a particular website. > > John E Allen > W. London, UK > > From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 29 March 2019 21:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PSES] phishing e-mail from an old account of yours? > > Ther are press reports in England of a major email leak - up to a billion > addresses, it is alleged. > > Best wishes > John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only > J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk <http://www.woodjohn.uk/> > Rayleigh, Essex UK > On 2019-03-29 17:56, Peter Tarver wrote: >> All - >> >> I just received an unsolicited e-mail from the address of >> jrallen-at-productsafetyinc.com. Beware the probable phishing and malware >> link, if you receive the same. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Peter L. Tarver >> >> - >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc >> discussion list. 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