I had to put myself (mikefoto at earthlink) on my block senders list with my earthlink mail, cause someone did the same to me recently. But also I have been phished(not sure if spelled right) twice on my earthlink account, trying to say that my account is in jeopardy, and I need to give personal info, in the last 10 days, so WATCH OUT. On Nov 9, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2004, at 12:05 PM, S. Blake smelled something: > >> Something fishy is going on here, but I don't know what. This >> "sender" copied my e-mail address. I have also gotten a bounce-back >> that I was supposed to have sent to someone in my address book-- but >> with the prefix 3D. > > You can probably thank one of your Windows-using friends for this. > There are several worms and viruses on Windows that search the > infected machine for e-mail addresses. When it finds your address, it > sends out an infected e-mail that looks like it came from you. > > There are also spammers who use this technique. > > This is why some of us champion digitally signed mail. If everyone > signed their mail, this type of spoofing would go away because we > could just throw away mail that wasn't signed. The spoofing program > cannot duplicate your signature. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
