[DeTomaso] creepy

[Christopher Kimball]

I've heard that some scammers can hijack email addresses and send things through them to avoid detection.
 
Chris
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:47:03 -0800> From: asajay at asajay.com> To: detomaso at realbig.com> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] creepy> > Looking at the headers of many of these it does appear as though the > forum is the sending party. However, that may simply mean that > something is sending to the forum and the forum is doing its normal > thing, relaying the message. So this lends me to believe Charlie is > correct. The thing to do as a forum admin, is to scrub the incoming > message for clues of its origin and then maybe we'd get some traction on > the source.> > > Asa Jay> > Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired> > & Shelley Marie> Spokane, WA> > 1973 Pantera L 5533> [ASASCAT]> > ****************************** > http://www.asajay.com> http://www.351c.info> > > > > Charles McCall wrote:> > The spambot armies are doing battle. This is a man-in-the-middle style> > attack from scraped Google mailing list archive email addresses.> >> > The 'From' field is easily spoofed on email from zombie spamming computers> > to lull the recipient into opening an attachment that can take over your> > machine if you don't have virus protection (and open it).> >> > Time to anonomize email addresses in the archives that let search engines> > index?> > ***I'm not sure if the e-mail addresses came from the archives. I tend to> > agree with the opinion of someone last week that said that someone on the> > list is infected with a virus that uses their address book to send out spam.> >> >> > Of course we're safe because the Forums software strips attachments to> > protect us from this very problem, but it is kind of weird. I'm not a> > computer expert, but I'm not really sure how a list administrator could> > prevent this either... I think that the solution is for everyone to run a> > virus check on their computer so that the "guilty party" gets healthy again> > and stops spamming us! > >> > Of course, all that is just a theory of course...> >> > _______________________________________________> >> > Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA> >> > Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/> >> > DeTomaso mailing list> > DeTomaso at list.realbig.com> > http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso> >> >> > > _______________________________________________> > Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA> > Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/> > DeTomaso mailing list> DeTomaso at list.realbig.com> http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso