[Parking lot location details deleted] While clearly not spam, the only other time Mr. Darlington's name appears in this group in the 12,459 low noise messages since 12/31/2010 was the following:
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Darlington Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:07 PM To: j...@quikus.com; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 2 (Spoofing) So that no more goes out to the list. It does nothing to stop the problem. I'd have to look at the headers but based on what I'm hearing it sounds like his mail server is wide open, OR, somebody on the same network/isp is spamming. -Bob On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, J. Forster <j...@quikus.com> wrote: I agree with that picture. The sad thing is that the spammer can do it to Jeff essentially forever. There is little that can be done, other than change his email address, because the spammer has both his email address and a list of sites where that email address is trusted. As a Moderator (not of this group) I immediately moderate any such spamming email addresses, so at least no further spam goes out. Best, -John ==================== 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> 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 This is the message that started it all: -----Original Message----- From: jeffh...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:42 AM To: lrode...@yahoo.com; ronru...@mindspring.com; smbi...@verizon.net; stacie...@comcast.net; time-nuts@febo.com; tryto...@gmail.com; warrensjmail-...@yahoo.com Subject: [time-nuts] 2 Have ever been to the best on-line shop? This is it! [link to a French ceramic pottery shop deleted]. End of old messages happens here. OB timenuts: Time hung heavy on my hands. Bill Hawkins _______________________________________________ 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.
