Oh, he surely got it all right. His computer or his ISP aren't likely involved in any way. What happened to him can happen to anyone who has ever sent an e-mail message to someone else or to a reflector, and probably will at some time. I handle dozens of e-mails every day from a large number of people in my work, and it's happened to me twice in the past two or three years. One time I was locked out of the Elecraft system for a couple of days because their anti-spam system couldn't tell that my e-mail address was being spoofed. As fast as I unlocked access, it'd relock it because there were still a flood of e-mails with my address spoofed being sent from some unknown machine somewhere in the world out there.
When you send an e-mail direct to someone or to a reflector like this where it's read by an unknown number of people, that e-mail address is stored the receiving system's list of addresses and if that computer is infected the entire list of e-mail addresses is transferred to yet another machine where they are chosen at random as the "source" of junk e-mails, some containing viri, others just stupid scams like that one. The person whose computer gave up your e-mail address often is completely unaware it happened, other than the fact that he/she isn't using a decent anti-virus program and firewall or has it turned off. It's the most basic and common sort of "identity theft". Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- It has been brought to my attention that the "real" Dale Putnam is a FB guy and a long time lister. I'm new to the Elecraft family. I apologize to the "real" Dale, and the rest of the listers, for implying that the 'real' Dale tried to scam me out of a KXB3080. I looked his call up in QRZ.com and emailed him directly but I have suppose there is no guarantee that email won't get hijacked also. I hope the 'real' Dale at least sees this list entry. Sorry for jumping the gun and thank you to everyone who brought this to my attention. Stan WB2LQF ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
