There probably is nothing that Legacy can do about it. The problem is not on their mail list server but rather it’s the bad person that is spoofing the “From” address in the mail header and most likely has found a server somewhere that is set up as an open-relay. This is how they can dump 10 million emails in a single day. Eventually it goes away in a day or two or three. It’s only a problem for those people who purchased discount keyboards that lack a delete key. If you’d like, I can send you an email that appears to be from Bill Gates at Microsoft and indicates that you just won $10 million in the Lottery.
Brian in CA From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Jodi Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 2:59 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mail addresses compromised? Can you fix it? It gets to be a little annoying after awhile. On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 5:46 PM, Sherry/Support <she...@legacyfamilytree.com> wrote: This is the first I've heard of it - I've not received any spam beyond the "normal" ones I get each week. Someone's email account may have been hijacked. One of the latest tricks is to hijack an account and pick an email address from the address book. then they send the email using the person's name and the stolen email address, so they really don't match. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Jodi <jimmys...@verizon.net> wrote: I wonder why nothing was said. It is just annoying, I had 1009 then I got spammed with them again while I was removing them and got about 500 more, so they are still out there. I had to do them one by one, as I had e-mail in between them. I have now marked them spam and I have 916 in my spam folder LOL! On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 4:27 PM, CE WOOD <wood...@msn.com> wrote: You don't use a password with for legacyusergroup. Great silence from Legacy regarding this breach of THEIR address, though. CE _____ From: chap...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:36:44 -0700 To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mail addresses compromised? You better start changing your PW for many of your accounts. ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ----- On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Ros Haywood <ros.hayw...@gmail.com> wrote: The spammer has upped his game. Now I am receiving emails from him that say that my order has been accepted, and he gives me a link to click if I want to cancel. Yeah, riiiiight. Like I'm going to click on a suspect link in an email. Ros in UK On 21/06/2016 19:19, Alex MacPhee wrote: Over the last few days, I have been getting lots of e-mails, apparently from legacyusergroup, all junk mail. In a period of just three minutes today, I have received 945! They clearly have nothing to do with Legacy or legacy groups. Has anyone else been experiencing this or similar? The address is one I only use for reputable mailing lists like this, so I wonder if there has been some kind of compromising going on, and felt it might be worth mentioning here. Kind regards, Alex
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