I've been receiving nasty e-mails too. No g-mail, but official/work e-mail address.
-----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Rui Barradas Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:09 PM To: Ding, Yuan Chun <ycd...@coh.org>; Fowler, Mark <mark.fow...@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>; Luis Puerto <luiss.pue...@gmail.com>; Peter Langfelder <peter.langfel...@gmail.com> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project <r-help@r-project.org>; Neotropical bat risk assessments <neotropical.b...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked Hello, Nor do I, no gmail, also got spam. Rui Barradas On 4/17/2018 8:34 PM, Ding, Yuan Chun wrote: > No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice. > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of > Fowler, Mark > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM > To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder > Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments > Subject: Re: [R] Hacked > > [Attention: This email came from an external source. Do not open > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected > emails.] > > > > > > Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing. Possibly it > is specific to gmail addresses? > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Luis > Puerto > Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM > To: Peter Langfelder > Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments > Subject: Re: [R] Hacked > > Hi! > > This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting and then > in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam filter. As the > others, I think that there is some kind of bot subscribed to the list, but > also perhaps a spider or crawler monitoring the R-Help archive and getting > email addresses there. Nabble is a possibility too. > >> On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfel...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails >> did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to >> the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies >> of this list (nabble or similar). >> >> Peter >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.ster...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I asked the moderators about it. This is the reply >>> >>> "Other moderators have looked into this a bit and may be able to >>> shed more light on it. This is a "new" tactic where the spammers >>> appear to reply to the r-help post. They are not, however, going through >>> the r-help server. >>> >>> It also seems that this does not happen to everyone. >>> >>> I am not sure how you can automatically block the spammers. >>> >>> Sorry I cannot be of more help." >>> >>> --Ulrik >>> >>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> schrieb am Di., 17. Apr. >>> 2018, >>> 14:59: >>> >>>> Likely a spammer has joined the mailing list and is auto-replying >>>> to posts made to the list. Unlikely that the list itself has been >>>> "hacked". Agree that it is obnoxious. >>>> >>>> On April 17, 2018 5:01:10 AM PDT, Neotropical bat risk assessments >>>> < neotropical.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Site has been hacked? >>>>> Bad SPAM arriving >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from my phone. 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