Hello Ron,
Got the same thing last week from a fellow ham that I Have not correponded
with for several months(Steve Katz-WB2WIK/6).
Also got one from n4py(Carl Moreschi)with a brand new video game he designed
just for me and I'm the first time user!
Well Carl never sent me that email and Steve dind't either!
Don't know what"s going on here folks but if you get an unsolicited e-mail
with attachments on it,DELETE IT!
Some of these look like valid msgs sent to another ham and are couched in
"ham talk".
DO NOT open them!
73 de Bill W4NJF
Bill Fulling
w4njf@email.midflorida.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] virus ??
> Not just spammers spoof.
>
> I had some hassles recently with the Harris Poll people (which I finally
> resolved by blocking all of their incoming email at the ISP, which is
> another story). At one point, I went and registered a few complaints on
> their web site. The replies I got back had a faked email address.
>
> How do I know? Because the Harris Poll doesn't use the ARRL.NET email
> servers.
>
> Unfortunately, when I tried to get ahold of someone up at HQ to see if
they
> wanted to follow up on it, their web master (via my contact) dismissed it
> out of hand as either a spammer or a virus spoof -- never bothered to read
> the details. So it goes. Pity, if it were me, I'd have a lawyer start
> talking to Harris -- and yes, I'm sure it's their real site!
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood... won't you be my neighbor?"
> Fred Rodgers, "Mister Rogers Neighborhood," SK, 27 February 2003
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer" <geraldj@isunet.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] virus ??
>
>
> The recent virus spoof originating addresses so what you see is probably
> not where they came from. Careful digging in the detailed headers can
> sometimes discover at least what server they came from, not necessarily
> what ISP user. Fussing at the described originating address is now
> mostly futile because of that spoofing.
>
> On a similar vein, much spam sending software creates destination
> addresses by starting with a huge list of e-mail names (e.g. the part
> before the @ sign) and server url (the part after the @ sign) and sends
> to addresses made up using every e-mail name and every server url. Many
> bounce. Some don't. Those that don't bounce probably get moved to
> "verified" direct e-mail mailing lists.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> --
> Entire content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer.
> Reproduction by permission only.
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