This is a reminder to all, make sure your email address is in your address book, if someone hijacks you email address book, you will get emails from yourself letting you know it. Robert
From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Tomlinson via BVARC Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:02 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> Cc: Bob Tomlinson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BVARC] How Are You Doing???.............Arthur Caprio I assumed it was when I got the reply. Tell Art hello for me when you see him. On Jan 16, 2018 1:32 PM, "Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I think it likely that Art didn't actually send that email. It looks like it might be a malware transmission message whose malware payload was stripped by the mailing list software. Either that, or an address harvesting thing from a spammer. Possibly both. This is based upon the fact that the subject is generic "How are you doing" and the body asks for a favor, without explaining what the favor might be. I would normally expect "can you do me a favor" to be in the subject while a description of the favor itself to be in the body of the message. If you're sending an email to a mailing list, you are generally encouraged to put the actual favor itself in the original message because you don't know who will respond to it, so people need to know what you need in order to know if they're the one who should respond. Also, I get tons of emails that say they're from person X while the response goes to somewhere else and the person, when asked about it, says they never sent the message. In the original message, the sender address is Art's real address (at least, it's the same address as one he used in April of last year to talk about the baseball game) but the reply-to address is different, going to outlook.com <http://outlook.com> instead of sbcglobal.net <http://sbcglobal.net> Anyway, if it isn't a bogus message, I'd like to be corrected. Keeping track of the technology that sends out bogus emails is kind of a hobby of mine. On 1/16/2018 11:57 AM, Bob Tomlinson via BVARC wrote: What do you need Art? Remember that I am 2000 miles away. On Jan 16, 2018 12:50 AM, "Arthur Caprio via BVARC" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi there Can you do me a favor ? Thanks, Art Caprio _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- Jonathan Guthrie KA8KPN _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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