My two cents worth (before Eric shuts this down :)
I'm getting so many emails that ALMOST have a valid address such as
** Amazon <"?>"> ** (Wrapped with additional special
characters)
Just for fun, I hit reply and the address is now:
** **
Sneaky
FWIW, I've had the 'UN-deliverable package' email, but Windows Defender
warned me. I recognized it as a phony about the same time. Still, I
was impressed with Defender.
I've been getting several phone calls from the Ransom-ware people, and I
tell them they should be ashamed of themselves.
nal Message-
> From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred
> Jensen
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:10 PM
> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open
>
> Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who h
Mr. Podesta is a good example of what I'm talking about: he was asked to
update his password, he didn't look at the message carefully and ask
himself if it was genuine.
There is nothing magical about Trojan horses. They rely on someone
trusting that the offer is genuine, and following the
] On Behalf Of Fred
Jensen
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:10 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open
Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who has recently posted
to this list resides in the trash folder on my computer where it went after
I
Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who has recently
posted to this list resides in the trash folder on my computer where it
went after I read it, and where it will stay until a few thousand
accumulate and I empty the trash. This is probably also the case for
most everyone else.
Kevin, you are correct. It's not the "spam" per-se, but the likelihood
that people on this list are receiving trojan horses, and opening them.
I know this address appears in exactly one place: here. It was
harvested from this list in one way or another.
It's possible someone found and
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kevin
- K4VD
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 1:59 PM
To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open
Do people still have problems with SPAM? I've noticed a significant drop in
the past year or so. Using
Do people still have problems with SPAM? I've noticed a significant drop in
the past year or so. Using Google GMail, they catch most of the spam before
I ever see it. I do check my spam folder at times just in case but boy oh
boy SPAM seems to have become a lot less of a problem lately.
In the
Let's not be hasty in our judgement...
To be fair, it would be trivial to write a small script to harvest any
string that looks like an email address that follows the form of
/\w\sat\s\w\.(com|net|org|tld)/ (that's a word followed by a space followed
by 'at' followed by space followed by a word
I'd like to thank the person who opened an E-Mail attachment that should
not have been opened.
The attachment contained a trojan horse -- malware that then harvested
E-Mail addresses from their machine.
I know it was a list member, because my E-Mail address for this list is
exclusively used
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