Hi
One thing that most people do not know of is that ANYONE can
send an email with totally fake sender addresses if they are prepared to write
a simple piece of code with an built in SMTP interface. I know because I did it
to prove that it would work. It is one of the methods that the spammers do when
sending their fake emails, plus lifting the targets from the user’s own system.
We really do need a system like DMARC enforcement in place for
all emails to verify that the email actually came from the alleged sender.
Regards
Chris
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Sherry/Support
Sent: 21 June 2016 22:47
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mail addresses compromised?
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 <jimmys...@verizon.net> 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 <wood...@msn.com> wrote:
You don't use a password with for legacyusergroup.
Great silence from Legacy regarding this breach of THEIR address, though.
CE
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From: chap...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:36:44 -0700
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mail addresses compromised?
You better start changing your PW for many of your accounts.
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Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Ros Haywood <ros.hayw...@gmail.com> 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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