On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:43, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Richard A Bretschneider ([email protected]): > >> I don't know Hilary that well, doubtful she would send such a mail to >> me. The pattern here is common with a scam where someone's e-mail or >> Facebook is compromised. >> >> If someone who does know Hilary can confirm her whereabouts or let her >> know this is happening, that would be good. > > That is very definitely not Hilary's writing style, and it has all the > hallmarks of a 419 scammer who's cracked Hilary's Yahoo account and is > attempting to defraud everyone in her Yahoo address book.
Or got her e-mail address from someone else's account, or from any public source. It is discouragingly easy to forge headers on e-mail, and pretend that it came from anybody the spammer likes, or sometimes dislikes. Hence Joe jobs. Lots of spam claims to come from you to you. If Richard saved the original e-mail, there are spam tracking sites that can determine where it really came from. Some of us can give you a likely source just from inspection of the headers. I helped organize CAUCE.org to lobby for anti-spam laws more than a decade ago, but then left to work on global poverty. > _______________________________________________ > Basfa mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
