No doubt harvested from the list. Every senders email address is exposed. Safe
bet that if Tom, Dick and Harry all subscribe to an email list they have either
explicitly or implicitly whitelisted each other.
Disappointingly few email servers take even rudimentary steps to validate that
an originating IP address is authorized to send on behalf of a domain, so the
delivery success of spoofs is pretty high. You're left relying on anti-spam
filters to weed out the trash.
Al
AB2ZY
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From: RTTY <rtty-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Bill Turner
<dezrat@outlook.com>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 9:51 PM
To: W2GR@aol.com
Cc: k5ww@coyotearc.net; w8wej@citynet.net; rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] W6WRT email hacked
------------ ORIGINAL MESSAGE ------------(may be snipped)
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:08:19 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Yup...got the same msg here....
>
>Unless we need to send him funds to the Philippines??
>
>How bout it Bill?...Maybe the headhunters got ya by now in New Guinea..I am
> sure you have hopped there by now.
>
>Mike W2GR
REPLY:
I am at a loss as to how this hacking happened. Anyone can spoof my
email address, but the real question is how did they get YOUR address?
My Yahoo address book is empty since I rarely use that account, and my
only address book is on my local computer. I have antivirus, a very
strong password on my local computer email program and a firewall.
Apparently not enough.
Any advice on this is welcome.
73, Bill W6WRT
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