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Old March 30th 14, 04:41 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
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Default OT - account hacked - Miriam Gaar

On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:36:41 +0100, Jo Gibson wrote:

I received a spam email from Miriam Gaar and I saw a lot of other
RCTQers on the "recipients" list. I think your account has been hacked
Mim.

I haven't seen any yet, but I'll be on the lookout.

It would probably be helpful if anyone with "mad skilz" who gets one of
these mails, would check the details and compare IP and routing to one of
Mim's actual emails.
Rather than hacking it could just be a simple spoof. In fact it is more
likely to be a spoof than a hack. A spoof would mean that the security
of the spoofed email account is intact and the name and domain were just
stuck into the email so it looks like it came from Mim. So Mim gets all
the complaints and spam reports at first, and by the time it is sorted
out the perpetrator has moved on to someone else's name. Lots easier
than actually hacking into her account and using it to send spam.

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