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

[Grant Hutchinson]

On 2013-02-01, at 5:51 PM, Lord Groundhog wrote:

> In case anyone noticed, our list just received a message as I describe in
> the Subject line, with a link in it.  DON’T 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.

I have placed John's account in moderated mode for the time being. I've also notified him off-list about the spam being sent using his email address. It may have been caused by his Yahoo! account being compromised or it could simply be email spoofing.

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