CS>My yahoo account was compromised

2013-05-13 Thread david bearrow
My yahoo account was compromised and the 16 unfortunate people in my online contact list received a spam email from me. I have changed my password. Please accept my apology. Lets hope I have fixed it now. David Bearrow

CS>Please delete earlier message titled "hello"

2013-05-13 Thread david bearrow
It appears someone figured out my yahoo password and sent out a spam email to people in my contacts list in my name. Please accept my apology. I have changed my password. Hopefully this ends it. David Bearrow

Re: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread Jaxi Schulz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:43 PM, PT Ferrance wrote: > Hi, > What is spoofing? > Thanks. > PT > > -- > *From:* Scott Adams > *To:* silver-list@eskimo.com > *Sent:* Mon, May 13, 2013 10:08:30 AM > *Subject:* RE: CS>make mone

Re: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread PT Ferrance
Hi, What is spoofing? Thanks. PT From: Scott Adams To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 13, 2013 10:08:30 AM Subject: RE: CS>make money with no money :) I run a lot of yahoo groups. I don't think it's all spoofing. The messages come in with a bunch of ot

CS>RE: hello

2013-05-13 Thread david bearrow
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RE: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread Scott Adams
I run a lot of yahoo groups. I don't think it's all spoofing. The messages come in with a bunch of other valid emails from the user's address book. So they do have access to that. Once the yahoo password is changed the emails stop too. But you do bring up a valid point. The yahoo groups will send

Re: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread Cyndi
On 5/13/2013 9:32 AM, Jaxi Schulz wrote: more complicated passwords should fix it In many cases the email accounts aren't hacked at all, they are spoofed so changing passwords won't make a difference. I know the ones on the Yahoo groups are spoofed. Don't know about here. Cyndi -- The Si

RE: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread Scott Adams
Good thought! I am going to start mentioning that to folks. From: Jaxi Schulz [mailto:jaxi.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 8:33 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>make money with no money :) more complicated passwords should fix it password crackers crack into a

Re: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread Jaxi Schulz
more complicated passwords should fix it password crackers crack into accounts with fairly easy passwords and then send to the address list in the account a secure password has upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols Jaxi On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Scott Adams wrote: > I run a

RE: CS>make money with no money :)

2013-05-13 Thread Scott Adams
I run a number of lists and have not been able to figure out the vector on this one either. It occurs pretty regularly and to folks who do seem to be practicing safe computing. Normally a password reset seems to get them straightened out. I would love to hear how to get these resolved long term!