[NTLK] [ADMIN] List Spam [Was:] My cmopany is hiring

[Ken Whitcomb]

Most likely his pc is infected by something taking advantage of his contacts and memorized senders and receivers or his address is being spoofed. Less likely that the attack vector is from a compromised account. Possible though, just less likely IMHO.

Ken

On Sep 17, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 7:35 AM, zerolatitude at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
>> sj  what are u up to?
> 
> Oh jeeze ... not another spam via a current member account.
> 
> I'm not sure whether to unsubscribe these addresses immediately or  
> not. It could be a hacked account or simply a spoofed address. Larry  
> Robinson, the owner of the zerolatitude address, has only posted to  
> the list once ... and that was back in May. It's very likely that is  
> Hotmail account has been compromised
> 
> What are people's thoughts on this?
> 
> g.
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