Gentlemen, it is very unlikely the qth list server was hacked. What we almost always see is that one or more indivudual list subscribers are hacked and their computers in turn send out these phishing emails to the list addresses in their email address books. I see these across the board on a regular basis from a wide range of lists and individual sources.

The elecraft list does require the sender address to actually be subscribed with that address to post to the list. We see a wide range of spam, phishing etc. from non-list senders in our list spam folder each day. Note that is is quite easy for anyone to use any email address as their 'sender' address in an email, I can do it here in less than 60 seconds, so its not surprising some of these slip through from time to time.

In general, do not ever click on links in an email. If you think an email requesting info is legitimate, independently go to the web site for the business in question (not the one the email points to..) and then log in normally and check out if there is are any notices etc.

Let's close this thread now before it takes up more room than the initial spam that made it through. :-)

73,
Eric
/elecraft.com/

On 3/7/2017 10:52 AM, Mike Rhodes wrote:


RUN, don't walk the other way. Look at the address - pretty wonky and
then it says something about CHASE Bank. Looks like someone hacked ALL
the mailman.qth.net mailing lists.

Mike / W8DN

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