[mso] My email account being cloned - ? OT
- From: "Anne Robson" <anne.robson2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:38:22 +0100
I've just come back from a week's long overdue holiday to find an email
purporting to be from my own work email account, sent to me, thus
bypassing all my spam settings very successfully. I've forwarded it below
- apologies for the length of the post especially for anybody reading it
on digest mode and also to Linda if this is deemed to be off-topic.
How in heaven's name do I get this stopped without setting myself up more
problems by recognising myself as a spammer? Apart from anything else,
this is clearly of interest to the list as it is targeting MSO!
Maybe there is some convoluted method I can use to get round this one but
it strikes me as being a very sinister development and any hints you can
offer for me to stop this recurring would be hugely appreciated.
BTW message headers are available for analysis.
Anne
-----Original Message-----
From: {my work email account}
Sent: 21 September 2005 12:25
To: {my work email account}
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Analysts Find New Microsft Office 12 a Waste of
Money
Attention Business Owner:
ANALYSTS FIND NEW [ Microsoft Office 12 ] TO BE AN UNNEEDED PURCHASE [
Extremely Complicated ] TO RE-LEARN AND SUGGEST KEEPING OLD VERSION.
September, 20th, 2005 - 4:00AM PDT
By Ina Fried / Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Unfortunately, the company was a little too successful at making its
innovations unobtrusive. In user testing, Microsoft found that nine out of
every 10 features that customers wanted to see added to Office were
already in the program. "They simply don't know it's there," Chris
Capossela, a Microsoft vice president, told a developer crowd last week.
"It's just too hard to find it."
"Some very small percentage of people are going to react overwhelmingly
negative," Sinofsky said in an interview. "I'm prepared for that."
But, he warned, Microsoft may still face a tough sell. "Microsoft has to
convince (corporate customers) not only that the new version is better,
but also that there is not a significant amount of retraining that is
going to be required for users."
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://news.com.com/Office+12+makeover+takes+on+feature+creep/2100-1012_3-
5873597.html?tag=st.num
----- ---- --- -- - -
MICROSOFT: Self-Admitted World's Largest & Greatest Spammer
----- ---- --- -- - -
" I'm with one of the greatest, most hated institutional
"spammers" around. We are a spamhouse. Doesn't matter
that we're Microsoft. Our legitimate, unsolicited email
is still just spam. "
- Mike Lyman
- MICROSOFT HEAD EMAIL ABUSE ADMINISTRATOR
ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?S1=spam-l&X=-
1. Under Search for type: "We are a spamhaus."
2. Under Search for type: "most hated institutional"
----- ---- --- -- - -
" Businesses ought to be able to send unsolicited e-mail to
people even if they are unsure if they have a pre-existing
business relationship with them. "
- Ryan Hamlin
- MICROSOFT CHIEF COUNSEL - August 22nd, 2005
ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3384447a28,00.html
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/22/1717258.shtml?tid=111&tid=109
----- ---- --- -- - -
- [ Public Service Announcement Brought To You By S P A M I S ]
- [ Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam ]
----- ---- --- -- - -
[ S P A M I S NOTIFICATION ]:
Thanks to Individual and Server Contributions, S P A M I S is Now "FULLY
READY" to Begin Increasing Microsoft Public Service Announcement Emails to
20 Times the Amount of Internet Email Users by 25 Times the Current
Sending Rate & Speed When a Certain Activity Transpires to "ANY" Past,
Present or Future S P A M I S Member(s) and/or "ANY" S P A M I S
Affiliate(s).
[ CURRENTLY IN WAITING FOR THIS ACTIVITY TO TRANSPIRE TO BEGIN ] [ S P A M
I S / PO Box 1259 , Seattle , WA 98101 - USA ]
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