Wups! Mea culpa -- clearly, that wasn't the case, as the e-mail originated from someone you knew. In which case, it was probably a weak password crack. I, myself, got bitten by that using what *I*, at least, thought was a fairly esoteric password. But my account provider ran the couple-million passwords[1] against all the accounts, and disabled the accounts that had hits, and lo! Mine was one of 'em.
[1] 32 million passwords stolen: http://tinyurl.com/3xwg2lm Do bear in mind that it's insanely easy to forge "from" headers; unless they actually ask you to respond to the e-mail address, I'd even put that down as most-likely hypothesis, barring contradictory evidence in the headers. > I guess law-enforcement is not nimble enough to deal with these kinds of > hoaxes. Sadly, the general rule is they don't get involved until there's significant loss incurred. That's not dyed in the wool, but they simply don't have anything like the resources to go after every phishing attack, 419 scammer, "lottery winner," etc. Especially since a non-trivial number of these originate from overseas. The Interwebtubes(tm) sure is a great thing, but it also makes scammers w-a-y more able to get around. $.02, -Ken > > > -- > Lloyd Kvam > Venix Corp > DLSLUG/GNHLUG library > http://dlslug.org/library.html > http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug > http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug > http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
