On 9 Apr 2014, at 20:06, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 4/9/2014 2:33 PM, steve harley wrote:
>> on 2014-04-09 11:22 John Sessoms wrote
>>> I'm getting SPAM from Yahoo this morning. Looks like some kind of
>>> phishing.
>>> Passes the DMARC because it is sent from a Yahoo server.
>>
>> when i get this it is generally from an acquaintance with a legitimate
>> account that got hacked; it gets sent to everyone in their address book;
>> once a week or so, often enough that i've stopped bothering to alert the
>> account holder
>
> Neither the sender, nor the reply to email (another Yahoo account) are
> anyone I know or have ever heard of before. Don't know how they got my
> email address into their address book.
It isn't necessarily their account that was hacked. Suppose my account was
hacked and the hacker started looping through each name in my contacts and
using that as the from address to send an email to each name in the address
book, you would likely receive any number of mails apparently from people you
don't know.
For each contact c1 in contacts do
Cut off a slice of spam
For each contact c2 in contacts do
Add c2 to spam
End
Send spam from c1
End
B
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