I have responded to this a few times. And I'm responding again.... What I think has happened, and I've seen this before, is someone on the list has some malware on his or her computer which has hijacked their address book and "stolen" the email addresses. That malware has taken *our* address to show as the "from" line with the person's name.
I've seen this many times - in fact, one of my personal email accounts was hijacked several years ago - I had only three email addresses in my address book and the hijacker sent out emails from me to those three people until I changed my email address. But it's even more insidious now as they take one of the email addresses in the address book to send from. I just looked in my Spam folder and I have a few of these emails. The "Reply to" is Badr Harrou <[email protected]> If it was *our* account hijacked, our account would be the Reply To. I agree with Leon - change your email passwords before your personal email account gets hijacked! As long as the hijackers have access to your email, those emails will be sent out again and again. And whatever you do, do NOT click on anything in those emails....... Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:26 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 > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
