Its highly unlikely that your accounts have been hacked. Much more likely as someone (?Sam?) said that a windows using friend's machine has been hijacked or emails harvested from one of those round robin monstrosities that people will insist on sending. If you check the origins of the emails, they will probably have come from somewhere entirely predictable (such as Eastern Europe or the Far East). It is very easy to change the "from" address in an email to make it superficially appear that it comes from your address. And what better way to get through your own spam filters than to come from your own address? Just think what might have happened in the background if you'd opened it on a Windows machine. Shudder...
Russell ----------------------------------------------- www.manorparksurgery.com www.thebrownstuff.blogspot.com 2008/11/24 anna churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ahhhh. even though I am back in America I still use my yahoo.co.uk address > and was getting and still get (in spam folder) a load of UK originated > really dodgy spam. everything from the nigerian money scam to lottery scams > to verify your bank account from every major bank. > > someone should ask (i can't remember his name) the very nice guy in SMUGS > who happens to be an internet fraud investigator---if there is any > investigation into all this. > > *Howard Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > > I have also had this problem over the last few weeks. I use a > Yahoo.co.ukaddress and have been offered medical supplies from myself! It is > worrying > so should I create a new address and just put up with the bother of > transferring all my accounts to a new email? Howard Johnspn > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
