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Purported E-mail from Richard Baxter

To: Peter Shute <>,
Subject: Purported E-mail from Richard Baxter
From: Sonja Ross <>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:44:11 +1000
I 've had my Yahoo account hacked, but I don't think it's only Yahoo, but also 
Hotmail, and I did hear that Gmail was also.  It's a pity that these people 
didn't use their brains for something useful!


On 11/09/2013, at 1:20 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:

> On the other hand, with this particular scam, it relies on recipients 
> replying to ask what's wrong, and then receiving further replies telling them 
> where to send money. I.e. the spammers need access to that mailbox for the 
> scam to work. 
> 
> If the email address used is really Richard's then there's a good chance 
> they've got the password for it. It appears that Yahoo accounts get hacked 
> regularly.
> 
> Peter Shute
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  
>>  On Behalf Of 
>> Chris Ross
>> Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2013 12:26 PM
>> To: 
>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Purported E-mail from Richard Baxter
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> it is not necessarily the email account of the "sender" that 
>> is compromised. Often these emails originate from other 
>> computers where the malware will harvest the address book and 
>> send out spoof emails which are basically designed to put 
>> people off guard.  They can even be harvested from 
>> birding-aus at it displays the sender's email address. This 
>> link explains things a bit better: 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing>
>> 
>> By all means Richard should check his account but it may not 
>> be the source.  Ultimately it requires vigilance to properly 
>> review emails and not click on links that you are not sure 
>> about, Spam programs do a lot but they are not 100% 
>> foolproof.  Normally grammar combined what they asking you to 
>> do will allow you to pick a dodgy email regardless of spoofing.
>> 
>> regards,
>> 
>> Chris Ross
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