The amusing part is that the one easily ignored email has generated a half
dozen other emails...
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:22 PM Kimberly Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> Yes, this is spam and it's quite irritatting, but before anyone else gets
> too upset, this is most certainly coming from a *spoofed* email address.
> There's a pretty good explanation about how spammers pull this off at
> https://lifehacker.com/how-spammers-spoof-your-email-address-and-how-to-prote-1579478914
> if
> you want to know. Yes there are ads, but this is a good introduction. No, I
> have no association with the web site.
>
> Very seldom is someone's e-mail *account* ever "hijacked" or "stolen."
> Lists of (at one time) legitimate, active email addresses are for sale all
> over the web. These are often harvested from web mai clients, such as
> browsers. If someone is reading their mail in a browser and simply closes
> the browser, instead of explicitly logging off, a prt can be left open that
> exposes your address list to the outsode. The port may not stay open long,
> but it doesn't take long if a web crawler spots it.
> Kim N5OP
>
> From: Clay Autery <KY5G@montac.com>
> To: rfi@contesting.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [RFI] (no subject)
>
> SPAM!!!
>
> ______________________
> Clay Autery, KY5G
> (318) 518-1389
>
> On 06/05/18 05:55, Jack Hammett via RFI wrote:
> > http://moreover.tiempoacrilico.com
> >
> > Jack Hammett
> >
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