This is the first I've heard of it - I've not received any spam beyond the "normal" ones I get each week.
Someone's email account may have been hijacked. One of the latest tricks is to hijack an account and pick an email address from the address book. then they send the email using the person's name and the stolen email address, so they really don't match. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Jodi <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder why nothing was said. It is just annoying, I had 1009 then I got > spammed with them again while I was removing them and got about 500 more, > so they are still out there. I had to do them one by one, as I had e-mail > in between them. I have now marked them spam and I have 916 in my spam > folder LOL! > > > > > On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 4:27 PM, CE WOOD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You don't use a password with for legacyusergroup. > > Great silence from Legacy regarding this breach of THEIR address, though. > > > CE > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:36:44 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mail addresses compromised? > > You better start changing your PW for many of your accounts. > > ___ > Leon Chapman > [email protected] > ----- > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Ros Haywood <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The spammer has upped his game. Now I am receiving emails from him that > say that my order has been accepted, and he gives me a link to click if I > want to cancel. > > Yeah, riiiiight. Like I'm going to click on a suspect link in an email. > > Ros in UK > > On 21/06/2016 19:19, Alex MacPhee wrote: > > Over the last few days, I have been getting lots of e-mails, apparently > from legacyusergroup, all junk mail. In a period of just three minutes > today, I have received 945! They clearly have nothing to do with Legacy > or legacy groups. Has anyone else been experiencing this or similar? The > address is one I only use for reputable mailing lists like this, so I > wonder if there has been some kind of compromising going on, and felt it > might be worth mentioning here. > > > Kind regards, > Alex > >
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