Russell Brown wrote: > Its highly unlikely that your accounts have been hacked. Much more likely as > someone (?Sam?) said that a windows using friend's machine has been hijacked > or emails harvested from one of those round robin monstrosities that people > will insist on sending.
I doubt if it's even that. If you get spam at all, your email is on one or more spam lists. Spammers can forge your email address as the sender as easily as they can set it as the recipient. Some spammers prefer to use a real email address as a sender, and certainl watching our company server, I used to see tides of spam where the sender was clearly been switched every few tens of emails (which presumably mean every few million sent) down an alphabetically ordered list. From time to time we would get hit by a wave of bounces for spam sent apparently by one of our email addresses - obviousl the spammers were using their list of addresses for sender as well as recipients. Within the last couple of weeks we've had a very substantial wave of spam where the sender and recipient were the same in each case. Obviously the spammers were calculating that many spam filters are set to whitelist the user's own email address, or own company domain (as were we, that's why we noticed it). It was so bad that the company to which we've now outsourced our email - because the effort of dealing with spam was more trouble than it was worth - sent out an advisory that they were going to forcibly reset users settings to de-whitelist clients own domains. My guess is that you're simply getting a bit of this - nothing to do with anyone you know. - Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
