So the person who was hacked has not only the legacyfamilytree address in
their address book, but the addresses for each of us who received the spam?
In any case, the spammer only has our addresses, so is there really any
reason for us to change our e-mail passwords?
Also, the spam seems to have stopped.
Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Sherry/Support
Sent: Wednesday, 22 June, 2016 3:29 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mail addresses compromised?
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:
...
--
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]/
