[DECtalk] Another important message about last night's spam

[mattias]

so the admin on this list dont care?

if you dont ban the spammer i will unsubscribe



Den 2016-05-24 kl. 19:15, skrev Jayson Smith:
> Hi again,
>
> Earlier today, someone replied to one of the spam messages, asking 
> them to stop spamming. Unfortunately, this reply probably contained 
> the spam link in the original message, so it was rejected as spam by a 
> few providers. In the future, if spam goes out on this or any other 
> list, I would suggest just ignoring it completely. Don't reply and ask 
> them to stop, don't berate them for spamming, etc. Just ignore it. If 
> the spam came from someone you happen to know, you could contact them 
> privately and let them know their Email account has probably been 
> compromised, but once spammers get hold of their address book, there's 
> not much anyone can do about it.
>
> The way this probably happens is as follows. Someone subscribes to a 
> list. This is usually someone using one of the mega Email providers 
> like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. Later, that account's username 
> and password are compromised. There are many ways this could happen 
> and I won't go into them here. At any rate, whatever hackers or 
> spammers now have that info log in and download the person's address 
> book. They then send Emails which appear to come from that Email 
> address to addresses in that address book, hoping to catch that 
> person's friends and associates off guard. When such a message goes to 
> a mailing list, the list software accepts it, since it looks like a 
> message from a legitimate subscriber.
>
> Once I saw a message come to a few mailing lists from someone I know 
> from those lists. He said he was in England and had been mugged, and 
> was asking people to click a link to send him money via Western Union 
> or some other payment service. A few minutes later, when the real 
> person got wind of those Emails, he sent a followup message to the 
> lists explaining what had happened and telling people not to believe 
> those earlier Emails.
>
> Jayson
>
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