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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