Re: [Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it
_BUMMER!_ Don't worry Guy, it's *definitely* a scam, a very common one at that with minor variations. I see it roughly once a month, usually (like this one) from someone on one of the many work/hobby email reflectors I monitor. If you receive something like this, are concerned and want to check it out, I recommend that you search for information at Snopes.com which is a reliable source. Searching Snopes for the phrase tears in my eyes turned up this page: http://www.snopes.com/fraud/distress/family.asp 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
Re: [Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it
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
Re: [Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:12:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of Ron D'Eau Claire, and lo! it spake thus: 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. Remember (or, well, learn for the first time if you're not a nerd), the From: header in emails means exactly nothing as far as determining where the mail came from. It's purely cosmetic, and trivially settable, as evinced by looking at the From: on this mail (hint: I'm not actually Ron :). So the From: on a scam email doesn't mean anything other than whatever person or program sent this happened to see that email address somewhere somehow, and decided to use it as the From:. No need for it to ever have been within a thousand miles of any system actually associated with that person. Of course, they often DO come from either local infection of that person's system, or a system of a correspondent of theirs that has the address sitting in their address book just waiting to be harvested, but that's just a way of finding a handy address to claim, not a requirement of any sort for sticking it on the mail. -- Matthew Fuller, N3TZJ n3...@n3tzj.org __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it
Ron, That is all it is. A virus in the email program sends a message to all in the address book. This is why some ISP's or internet web services only allow a limited # of emails to be sent at once. Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 6:12 PM To: 'Gary Hinson'; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Sad News!!! *SCAM* pls ignore it [END of Thread]
END of this thread and all related ones under various similar subject lines. 73, Eric Elecraft Moderator On 9/25/2010 4:28 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:12:25PM -0700 I heard the voice of Ron D'Eau Claire, and lo! it spake thus: 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. Remember (or, well, learn for the first time if you're not a nerd), the From: header in emails means exactly nothing as far as determining where the mail came from. It's purely cosmetic, and trivially settable, as evinced by looking at the From: on this mail (hint: I'm not actually Ron :). So the From: on a scam email doesn't mean anything other than whatever person or program sent this happened to see that email address somewhere somehow, and decided to use it as the From:. No need for it to ever have been within a thousand miles of any system actually associated with that person. Of course, they often DO come from either local infection of that person's system, or a system of a correspondent of theirs that has the address sitting in their address book just waiting to be harvested, but that's just a way of finding a handy address to claim, not a requirement of any sort for sticking it on the mail. __ 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
