For most of us, our email addresses are public anyway. If you all google your
email address, most of you will find it.
They can get email addresses by buying them, by searching for them or even by
making them up. It appears that some spammers have figured out ham-radio call
signs, so they make up callsign@major-isp.com, such as w1rfi@aol.com, and at
least some of them are real. They they simply pretend to be you.
There are also virii that will harvest someone's address book. The premise is
that many people have friends in common, so if they send out spoof email from
people in someone's address book to others in that address book, they may know
each other. So, when you all get an email from w1rfi@arrl.org, you might well
open it.
Now, when they get really sneaky, they will start harvesting subjects and then
send them out with a Re: (subject), and a response that says, "I have been
reading this thread, and think that this is something useful:
www.malwaresitethatdoesnastythings.com
I get email from me all the time, telling me to look at the pretty pictures.
Ed
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From: RFI [rfi-bounces@contesting.com] on behalf of Kimberly Elmore
[cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 4:22 PM
To: Clay Autery; rfi@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] (no subject)
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:
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