Yes, they would. Generally the people finally register that something is up. A lot of people with our business email in their address book have had the same issues (with a link to pretty much the exact same site), and it seems like they got the hint and stopped clicking on the links. Hopefully it's the same kind of hack and people here will catch on, too.
BTW, if you want to prevent this from happening to you, go to all of your webmail login account pages and click 'Log out', and use an actual email client to get and reply to your mail (you can go the extra mile and delete all your cookies, or the cookies for the sites you use for email to absolutely prevent the exploit). If the cookie doesn't exist, or is invalid, then the 'hack' doesn't work. I use thunderbird for all of my email accounts, one of which is a gmail address, and haven't had this issue, even though I did click on one of the links before realizing what it was. I'm also not sure that gmail is affected by this, but have noticed an awful lot of hotmail and yahoo accounts being exploited this way. It's always possible that gmail is affected, but I just haven't noticed any of these emails coming from gmail accounts. -- Matt On 5/17/2010 9:10 PM, Matt Hoffman wrote: > Matt: Wouldn't they see the emails coming in/being replied to in their > own inbox? (Thus tipping them off that something is up) > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Sam Horn<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Subject: "[hlds] (no subject)" >> Move to trash >> >> - Sam >> >> On 18 May 2010 06:44, Olly<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> .... thank YOU for spamming my inbox... I have blocked this guy, but people >>> _still_ feel the need to reply to them, and we all get the emails anyway. >>> >>> Can't you just drop it and simply NOT reply? >>> >>> On 17 May 2010 21:39, myself last name goes here<[email protected] >>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>> >>>> you there, shut it up with your ads >>>> this is supposed to be a CLEAN inbox >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Dustin wizards< >>>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>>> http://www.radio-4fun.eu/home.php >>>>> >>>>> _________________________________________________________________ >>>>> Looking for a place to manage all your online stuff? Download the new >>>>> Windows Live >>>>> http://download.live.com >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>>> please visit: >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
