[NTLK] That recent spam message marked "hello!" from "john wallace"

[Forrest]

Good thing I have a Mac....

Thanks,
--Forrest

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On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Lord Groundhog <lordgroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:

> In case anyone noticed, our list just received a message as I describe in
> the Subject line, with a link in it.  DON¹T CLICK ON IT.  It just takes you
> to a Fox News page that advertises some kind of pharma-hocus-pocus.  I know
> this because a number of friends who have Yahoo mail accounts have sent it
> to me in the last few hours.
> 
> 
> Interesting points:
> [1] the spammers don¹t always use the same subject line.
> [2] the link that appears in the e-mail and eventually goes to that page
> isn¹t the same although the destination page seems to be.
> [3] the mail is sent only to 8 addresses, often including alternate
> addresses of the account they¹ve seized.  In the case of the other people I
> was able to verify that most of the addresses were genuinely stored in their
> Y! address book.  One address is mispelled by one letter in 2 instances ‹
> what?!  
> [4] this e-mail sent to us likewise has a total of 8 addresses.  If this
> John Wallace really is or was one of us, that would explain why the
> Newtontalk address is one of them.
> 
> 
> Anyway, I found it interesting to look at the pattern I think I see, and I
> assume it means that once again, Yahoo¹s refusal to co-operate adequately
> with customers in locking things down has resulted in a massive
> seize-and-spam operation by some drongo who thinks annoying people is a good
> way to make money. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Shalom, 
> 
> Christian 
> 
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