Re: [Elecraft] Re: My predicament - how the hacker s do

2010-01-17 Thread Phil Hystad
Unfortunately it is all too easy to "spoof" someone's e-mail identity. An e-mail message is merely a text message where some of the text (at the beginning of the message stream) are headers that identify the sender, reply address, and other information. The remainder of the message is the actu

[Elecraft] Re: My predicament - how the hacker s do

2010-01-17 Thread Johnny Siu
There should be a hacker, hacking into Ted's computer and steal all the contact information in the address book of Ted's mail account.  Therefore, everyone on Ted's address book will receive this email asking for some money.  Since the amount requested is not significantly large, there is a chan

[Elecraft] Re: My predicament

2010-01-17 Thread Johnny Siu
correct, one of my colleague in Hong Kong fell into this trap. - 郵件原件 寄件人﹕ Andrew Moore 收件人﹕ ted1...@operamail.com; Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期﹕ 2010/1/17 (日) 9:47:30 PM 主題: Re: [Elecraft] My predicament Common scam. On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:43 AM, ted orant wrote: > I'm writin