medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Cecilia (and other list-members),
I was alarmed when somebody hijacked my university email address a month or two ago, but was assured by our technical-support guru that there was no need to take desperate measures. He said that spammers do this all the time -- that is, they borrow a real person's address (to get past spam filters) without actually hacking into their computer or compromising their account, and use each address for just a day or two, before moving on to somebody else's. And that is what happened in my case: a day or two in which I received hundreds of returned messages that I hadn't already sent, followed quickly by a return to normality.
So I'd second the suggestion that it's possible-- even likely-- that your spam-sending problem will clear up all by itself.
Sherry Reames
----- Original Message -----
From: cecilia gaposchkin <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:14 pm
Subject: Re: [M-R] Off-Topic: Spam; was, Re: [M-R] Dear friend,
To: [log in to unmask]
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am back from a few days away and, thanks to John McChesney Young,
> who thoughtfully wrote to me at my (daily used) Dartmouth account, I
> have learned to spamming in my name. My apologies to all who have
> been inconvenienced or irritated. I will close this account forthwith.
> Especial alert of thanks to John, without whom I'd have not known for
> some time more.
>
> cecilia
>
>
>
> M.C.Gaposchkin, Ph.D.
> History, Dartmouth College
>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:57:34 -0700
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [M-R] Off-Topic: Spam; was, Re: [M-R] Dear friend,
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> > Christopher Crockett wrote:
> >
> > > not only has Cecilia's email apparently been hijacked, but a
> posting to the
> > > list has been sent in her name?
> >
> > A similar case happened recently on another list I'm on, and when I
>
> > looked into it I discovered this sort of thing has been going on for
> a
> > few years with addresses at the Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail domains
> (at
> > least). The spammers get hold of webmail account names and
> associated
> > passwords and send out their spam in the name of the actual holders.
>
> > This doesn't mean that CG's computer is infected with malware - the
>
> > sender could be using any computer on the Internet to log in to her
>
> > account - but her e-mail account at Hotmail has been compromised and
> she
> > should change her password to prevent its continued improper use.
> >
> > What's ironic is that all the subscribers to Classics-l who use
> Hotmail
> > or MSN accounts were unsubscribed a few days ago because Microsoft
> > reached the U of Kentucky's limit of bounce messages, sent because
> > Microsoft thought Classics-l messages were spam.
> >
> > John
> >
> > ***
> > > ------ Original Message ------
> > > Received: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:07:08 PM EDT
> > > From: cecilia gaposchkin <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: [M-R] Dear friend,
> > >
> > >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Dear friend,
> > >
> > >> We are a large trading company from china, an agent of all the well-known
> > > digital product factories ...
> >
> >
> > --
> > John McChesney-Young ~ jmccyoung at gmail dot com ~ Berkeley, California
> > http://jmccyoung.blogspot.com
> >
>
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