> -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > u.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Simulavr-devel] best regards (fwd) > > As Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > To me, this looks like a poor attempt at phishing. > > Sure, coming from a source address somewhere in Korea. Eric > was for sure well asleep by the time he was supposed to have > sent that message... > > Seems someone gathered a lot of addresses in the GNU/FSF area to > launch a phishing attack. I've got a couple of auto responses today > that indicate "I" have sent similar mails to other parties. There's > not much information within the auto responses to allow me tracking > the actual source, but all appear to have in common (also with that > mail here) some Korean characters in the timestamp within the first > "Received" header (likely to be a weekday or month name). > > As that phishing attack was launched using email source addresses > well-known to mailing lists like this one, it could bypass the simple > "only subscribed members are allowed to send" verification.
I have had a flood of emails recently, with attachments, that are getting filtered at the corporate level (but I still have to go flush them). I've noticed that a lot of these emails are from "sender" addresses that are familiar from the GNU/FSF area, as Joerg pointed out. Eric Weddington _______________________________________________ Simulavr-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/simulavr-devel
