>From the looks of it: 1. The bad guys imported/stole Jeff's address book (via social networking ABI hijack, or PC infection).
2. The bad guys then spammed (from 84.27.224.19 in the Netherlands) to the contacts they stole from Jeff's address book (and spoofing as "Jeff"). This is troubling because it could happen to any one of us (if we have an address book and it gets hijacked). Per John's previous message, I would be leery of social network ABI (Address Book Import) for one thing. -Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Harris" <cfhar...@erols.com> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 2 (Spoofing) I'm not convinced. Notice that the to: line contains a list of addresses that look like they would belong in a time-nut's address book. That wouldn't be beneficial, or necessary if the spammer was spoofing his way into febo's servers. I think this came from a spambot running on jeff's machine, and it emailed the payload to as many places as it dared... one of them happened to be the time-nuts address used for posting messages. -Chuck Harris gbusg wrote: > The spam message in question was apparently spoofed and did *not* > originate > from Jeff's PC. In the message header, note the Originating-IP was > [84.27.224.19]. That IP address originates from a server at [Netherlands > Groningen Ziggo B.v]. Jeff's actual IP address (which I won't repeat here) > is significantly different and is located in the U.S.A. > > Chuck, I think somehow the spoofers have overcome the obstacle you > mention, > unfortunately. (Otherwise how did the user of the Netherlands server > manage > to get spam through to our group?) > > -Greg _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.