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
<mailto:HC@xxxxxxxxxx>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,
<mailto:i.gallacher@xxxxxxxx>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@xxxxxxxxxxx
I 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
<mailto:bones@xxxxxxx>bones@xxxxxxx
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2992
- Release Date: 07/09/10 19:36:00
