Re: [time-nuts] 2... more

[Chris Albertson]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:39 AM, J. Forster  wrote:
> I forgot to add that malware scans of their machines have found no
> infections AFAIK.

One need not go to such trouble to get the information needed to send
fake emails.  for example look at the full headers on this message.
It contains my email address and also the full list of mail servers
that were used.  Anyone who is subscribed to this list can get the
full list of email address of all people who post here.

The best thing is not worry to much if you see several spams, make a
filer in you email reader to trash them and you will not see another.
-- 

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California

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Re: [time-nuts] 2... more

[J. Forster]

I forgot to add that malware scans of their machines have found no
infections AFAIK.

-John




> There has to be more to it than that.  Knowing a member's email
> address is not a key into the time-nuts (or yahoo) lists.
>
> For instance, if I spoof my return and from addresses to be the same
> as my time-nuts subscribed email address, and send a message to
> time-nuts@febo.com from one of my non-subscribed email servers, it
> gets dutifully ignored.  It came from the wrong email account on the
> wrong server.
>
> The simple Occam's Razor style answer, in my opinion, is the hijacked
> user's PC has been breached by a typical Windows PC trojan horse
> spambot program, and is spewing out spam emails through the hijacked
> user's PC's email program.
>
> Right?
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> J. Forster wrote:
>> I own/moderate a number of Groups with>10,000 members total and I see
>> about one of these a day.
>>
>> In most cases, the hijacker gets the victim's email address via a social
>> media site. Apparently what happens is that when people sign up, the
>> site
>> grabs your address book unliss you are savvy enough to explicitly
>> opt-out.
>>
>> When this happens, you can essentially kiss that email address goodbye.
>>
>> -John
>
>



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