[TowerTalk] Fwd: Unwanted crap msgs

[Al Kozakiewicz]

Actually, that's not true.  As a subscriber to tower talk, I now know David Gilbert's email address and that towertalk at contesting.com will accept a message purporting to be from him.  Armed with that knowledge and an ISP that doesn't care if I operate an SMTP server, I can send email to everyone who subscribes to this list without ever accessing your computer.  I don't need to have access to your address book, only copies emails you've sent or have been sent to you.  And I can get them legitimately.

Al
AB2ZY

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Gilbert
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 4:17 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Unwanted crap msgs


True.  It does not require that your computer be hacked, although it likely was if the spam messages get sent to addresses in your address book.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 3/31/2012 1:06 PM, HansLG at aol.com wrote:
> The sad thing is that "they" only have to know your e-mail address to 
> make the spams. "They" can fake it all in their own server. You will 
> only know you  were hit if some of the e-mails come in return.
>
> Hans - N2JFS
>
>
>
> ____________________________________
>   From: bmarx at bellsouth.net
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Sent: 3/29/2012  12:52:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
> Subj: Re: [TowerTalk] Unwanted crap  msgs
>
>
> Phishing attempts that are successful, such as this one, are  usually 
> easily remedied, by changing the email password. That is if it  does 
> happen to you.
> Bill Marx W2CQ
>
>
>
> On 3/29/2012 10:16  AM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
>> I doubt it was you at all.  I looked at  the original message header 
>> and
> it came from a yahoo server, not  sbcglobal.
>> Unless contesting.com takes some measure to  validate that messages
> actually originate from a server authorized to send on  behalf of a 
> domain, anyone with a PC on the internet can install an SMTP  server 
> and send email to tower talk appearing to be from Jim  McLaughlin.
>> Al
>> AB2ZY
>>
>>   ________________________________________
>> From:  towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf  Of Jim McLaughlin 
> [dearborn9 at sbcglobal.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29,  2012 12:48 AM
>> To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
>> Subject:  [TowerTalk] Unwanted crap msgs
>>
>> I'm really sorry. I got  hijacked by some means. Trying to do 
>> something
> about it. 73
>>   Jim-   WA9FPT
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