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 > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
