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
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> ------ 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 ...
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John McChesney-Young ~ jmccyoung at gmail dot com ~ Berkeley, California
http://jmccyoung.blogspot.com
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