Put me down for two, as well. I get two per day from my daughter. definitely dodgy, since she's staying with us at present!
Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote:
Unfortunately I received four more spam messages today purporting to come from Frank. This list also got hit by two attempts to post to it.As with the last posts the author is said to be Frank Turley at a mythical @aim address. Posts were sent to me at both my bones address and my jhb address plus this freelists address. In each case the posts were also directed to other people in broad alphabetical groups – which suggests an address book has been hacked.The trouble is that it is probably not Frank’s address book that has been hit. The usual trick is to get at someone’s address book then pick a name from this at random (in this case Franks) and then sent out spam using this as the false source.It is also obvious that the hacked address book comes from someone connected with Flight Sim (as previously thought) because I recognise many addresses from early FS days and the UK scenery group.The post sent to _HC@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:HC@xxxxxxxxxx> also went to other G-H-I addresses:greg.jones@xxxxxxxxxxx, Hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Hargreaves.Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, haroon@xxxxxxxxxxx, HC@xxxxxxxxxx, help@xxxxxxxxxxxx, helpline@xxxxxxxxxx, hjcurtis@xxxxxxxxxxxx, hughturley@xxxxxxxxxxx, _i.gallacher@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:i.gallacher@xxxxxxxx> The post sent to bones went to J-K-L addresses: bones@xxxxxxx, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jud6e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, k.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Katherine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, humphreyskim@xxxxxxxxxxx, kirsty.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxx, library-files-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, library-files-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lisa.Horn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx And the post to Freelists went to M-N addresses: Miguelbernardo@xxxxxxxxxxx, mikemasser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, monirgeadah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, music__studio@xxxxxxx, jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, nglossop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Niall_Byrne@xxxxxxxx, albions@xxxxxxxxxxxx, norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, norman_swardeston@xxxxxxxxxxxI recognise a few of the addresses above – Howard Curtis, Monir, John Farrie, Norman Blackburn, Ken Jude, Ian Gallagher – plus there are help lines for Saitek and Avsim included (the hacker was obviously too lazy to remove these).Sadly I don’t think there is anything we can do about this hacking. It would be a stroke of pure luck if we were to find our mutual friend who might have Niall Byrne, Lisa Horn and others in his address book. Having said that the FS world is almost solidly a male environment so I guess the three or four female names on the above list would track the owner down fairly rapidly – if only we knew where to start.bones _____bones@xxxxxxxx <mailto:bones@xxxxxxx>
