Not necessarily your address as well. Are you getting them to your personal email address rather than the list? People were saying it was going to the list.
Who knows what emails are in anyone's address book. I've sent emails to mailings lists and the email program has stored the email for the person who sent the email to the list. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Ward Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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]/
