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OT - account hacked - Miriam Gaar
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. -- Jo in Scotland |
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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. NightMist |
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