Re: google spam

2015-09-18 Thread Charles Lenington
On 9/17/15 4:51 PM, 'Glen' via G-Group wrote: A couple of year ago I received call from a guy "from Google" who wanted to update my business site (now retired) . He had a good presentation and I let him run is pitch. He even used FLASH to to take control of my browser showing me how he could

google spam

2015-09-17 Thread Charles Lenington
Has anyone received phone calls from google wanting to set up a business account/web site? -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at

Re: google spam

2015-09-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 17, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: > > Has anyone received phone calls from google wanting to set up a business > account/web site? These are fake. Bunch of companies doing this, Google tries to stop it…

Re: google spam

2015-09-17 Thread 'Glen' via G-Group
5 2:24 PM Subject: google spam Has anyone received phone calls from google wanting to set up a business account/web site? -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Mac

Odd spam emails

2013-02-27 Thread JohnV
I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical one-line come-on messages like hey! you need to look

Re: Odd spam emails

2013-02-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical one-line come-on messages like hey! you need to look

Re: Odd spam emails

2013-02-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 27, 2013, at 7:42 AM, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-25 Thread glen
- Original Message - From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com At 4:02 PM -0700 6/22/2012, glen wrote: My concern is security. If some spammer has access to my address book and can send spam spoofed from friends and associates' email address what else do they know; SS numbers, CC numbers

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-25 Thread Dan
At 4:21 PM -0700 6/25/2012, glen wrote: My business email account is web based Yahoo Mail and I could not find a way to check the all the headers. On Yahoo! webmail, view the mail message. Then pull down the tool (gear) menu and select View Full Header. Yahoo's presentation leaves a lot to

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-22 Thread Doug McNutt
At 00:26 -0400 6/22/12, Dan wrote: At 4:12 PM -0700 6/21/2012, glen wrote: I get my share of spam -- most of it goes into the spam folder where it belongs. Which spam folder - the one in your local mail client or the one on Yahoo's service? If the former then your Yahoo service isn't doing its

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-22 Thread glen
- Original Message - From: Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Cc: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns At 00:26 -0400 6/22/12, Dan wrote: Which spam folder - the one in your local mail client

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-22 Thread tina
Den Lørdag, 23/6 2012, 01:02, glen skrev: My concern is security. If some spammer has access to my address book and can send spam spoofed from friends and associates' email address what else do they know; SS numbers, CC numbers, bank accounts, passwords??? Dan and Doug, thanks for you help

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-22 Thread Dan
At 4:02 PM -0700 6/22/2012, glen wrote: My concern is security. If some spammer has access to my address book and can send spam spoofed from friends and associates' email address what else do they know; SS numbers, CC numbers, bank accounts, passwords??? Well, that depends on where

Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-21 Thread glen
I get my share of spam -- most of it goes into the spam folder where it belongs. During the past months I found a few spams disguised with the name and email address of former business clients and today the name and email address of a close friend in my inbox. The business clients I have

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gerome
-Original Message- From: glen glenst...@yahoo.com Sent: Jun 21, 2012 7:12 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Questions About New Spam Concerns I get my share of spam -- most of it goes into the spam folder where it belongs. During the past months

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-21 Thread Dan
At 4:12 PM -0700 6/21/2012, glen wrote: I get my share of spam -- most of it goes into the spam folder where it belongs. Which spam folder - the one in your local mail client or the one on Yahoo's service? If the former then your Yahoo service isn't doing its job. During the past months I

Re: Moderator's spam report for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com

2012-05-18 Thread Len Gerstel
as likely spam messages. If you take no action, all the messages below will be discarded automatically as spam. However, if you see any messages that are not spam below, you may approve them individually by going to: http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/pendmsg Please do not mark

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:49 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: But I keep getting these things, and its been happening for a long time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox. Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail address I have for the g3-g5 list to SPAM me

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Dan
address I have for the g3-g5 list to SPAM me. Maybe I should just change that? wondering how they got that in the first place ... I thought we were protected there. Please send me a single sample, including the full headers. I'll take a look. For some reason, Mail (or the Server) refuses

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Tina K.
the topics these days anyway ... Huh? I get zero spam from LEM lists, and I'm subscribed to at least five of them. Perhaps AOL is catching it. Obviously this is a GMAIL account not an AOL account, please pardon my blonde moment. Well, zero is relative. There was that recent fusenet glitch

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Ben Dinger
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:51:25 -0600, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not a big Verizon fan, but then I dont have FiOS either. I might be willing to put up with them for that kind of speed. I have two Gmail and two AOL accounts and I see very little spam, nothing like I did

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Dan
Bill forwarded the email to me. My response: This received header is the key: Received: from c9rxllkk ([unknown] [220.95.137.166]) by vms169129.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTP id 0ln100itki5fq...@vms169129.mailsrvcs.net for

Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Bill Connelly
Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming from the G3-G5 LEM List? I'm not getting much from the topics these days anyway ... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
At 9:15 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming from the G3-G5 LEM List? From? A legit g3-5-list email has a TO field that says - and note the lower case: To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com and it

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Bill Connelly
been happening for a long time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox. Just sick of seeing them. Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail address I have for the g3-g5 list to SPAM me. Maybe I should just change that? wondering how they got that in the first place ... I thought we were protected

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Brielle
I'm not getting any of these spams you are talking about. Perhaps you need a better email host? We (my group) is Mac friendly and there's super strong mail filtering. Let me know if you want an account. Brielle On Jun 18, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
At 10:49 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: But I keep getting these things, and its been happening for a long time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox. Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail address I have for the g3-g5 list to SPAM me. Maybe I should just change that? wondering how

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:49 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: But I keep getting these things, and its been happening for a long time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox. Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail address I have for the g3-g5 list to SPAM me

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
address I have for the g3-g5 list to SPAM me. Maybe I should just change that? wondering how they got that in the first place ... I thought we were protected there. Please send me a single sample, including the full headers. I'll take a look. I'll wait for the next one to arrive, Ok. as all

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread larry moore
sysadmin has a good spam filter set up and I get almost no spam. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.netwrote: Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming from the G3-G5 LEM List? Nothing like that is coming into gmail. with or without fake Glist addies. --

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Doug McNutt
I personally handle lists using the ListID: header that is almost universal now. These are typical: To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM? Reply-To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com List-ID: g3-5-list.googlegroups.com My list address is filtered using

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Edward Treen
On 18 Jun 2011, at 18:46, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming from the G3-G5 LEM List? Nothing like that is

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I occasionally get those messages as well, but not enough to even annoy me. I just ignore them. -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/06/18 07:15, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming from the G3-G5 LEM List? I'm not getting much from the topics these days anyway ... Huh? I get zero spam from LEM lists, and I'm subscribed

spam

2011-04-20 Thread Geke
I just got 79 spam messages, fortunately all of them were filtered out by Gmail. The reason for reporting this here is that they were all looking like error messages for not being able to deliver a post of mine to the G3-5 group. So it looks like someone has been collecting all my posts

Re: spam

2011-04-20 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Geke gevangaste...@googlemail.com wrote: I just got 79 spam messages, fortunately all of them were filtered out by Gmail. The reason for reporting this here is that they were all looking like error messages for not being able to deliver a post of mine

Re: spam

2011-04-20 Thread Kris Tilford
The storm is over, let's just forget it and move on . . . -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette

Re: ***SPAM*** OSX is a 32-bit operating system?? is this true??

2010-06-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:47 PM, ah...clem wrote: i've just been informed by a reliable source that OSX is a 32-bit s/reliable source/clueless wanker/ There, fixed it for yah. In actuality it is both. up through 10.5 OS X was 32-bit (with 64 bit parts on some systems, notably the G5's) 10.6 is

Spam malware?

2010-02-19 Thread Kris Tilford
suspect this may be part of some SPAM operation. I'm leaning toward telling Little Snitch to Deny the connection Forever. Any advice? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs

Re: Spam malware?

2010-02-19 Thread Dan
anything from the AOL account to cause this. I suspect this may be part of some SPAM operation. I'm leaning toward telling Little Snitch to Deny the connection Forever. Any advice? CompuServe is owned by AOL and still exists. That IP is part of one of AOL's SMTP pool. AOL seems to be having some

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread John Musbach
send them on to spamdetector.notcau...@verizon.net, but I'd like to follow this one back if possible to their ISP. According to the data you provided, the spam email was relayed through vms169131.mailsrvcs.net whose IP address is 67.215.65.132 which when whois'd through arin.net's IP database

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: How do you trace bad e-mails back to their origins? These things, mostly VIAGRA ads, are also coming from the G3-G5 list, although I think this one came from someone who has viewed my

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread Dan
At 5:37 PM -0500 1/25/2010, John Musbach wrote: If you google g3-5-list archive you can see that there are multiple archives of this list being maintained apart from the google groups archive Whoa. I guess it makes sense that those would exist, but I had no idea! Geeze, there's even an

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread John Musbach
their language and can afford the long distance fees you could contact the technical representitive directly but ultimately you'll probably get a better response by reporting to opendns their clients use of their services as a spam relay as not only will they be able to communicate in a more professional

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread Dan
for the actual IP owner (see my original reply). Someone from Mexico did view my site recently The spam came from Brazil, not Mexico. No real connection there, unless you're worried about it all being one big continent. Any way to contact them back? Sure. You could file paperwork

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread romantic
It may be worth a mention that my filters have been selecting Bill's postings to the g3-5-list as junk mail. The server filters and my mail client's filter are doing an excellent job. My filter is set to training mode so I can see what's what. I have had to hit the not junk icon at least half

Re: How to Trace Spam / Harassing e-mails off G3-G5 list and others

2010-01-25 Thread Bill Connelly
see what's what. I have had to hit the not junk icon at least half a dozen times anytime Bill posted a message. Regards, Roman I don't remember getting any spam at all when we had the old LEM list. No VIAGRA ads, no Even though Your Mom is Dead ... Let's Find a Place for her to Live ads

Re: Spam on list

2009-07-19 Thread Len Gerstel
not know if it will help, but yahoo users might want to change their passwords. So, PLEASE folks, if you see a spam on the list, odds are it came from a hacked Yahoo account. PLEASE DO NOT comment on it. The Nannies will try and moderate the account as soon as we can to prevent further spams