On 07/04/2018 08:17 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 04/07/2018 12:40, Paul Mansfield wrote: >> I'm wondering how the unique email address I use for UKNOF got >> leaked. >> > Generally this happens when someone's subscribed to the list via a > Hotmail or Gmail account and has a easily guessable password, > sometimes they send spear-phishing emails to their online contacts > using that very account, and/or they harvest the mailboxes for email > addresses. Every UKNOF subscriber can see that you use "paul+ukn?f at > m?nsfie?d.co.uk" type email address.
The sender was indeed subscribed to the list, but I received this spam in multiple places. Posting from this address to the UKNOF list is now being filtered. Keith
