[AMRadio] SPAM on AMRadio

Fri Apr 6 07:14:00 EDT 2012

Funny how millions of us are almost completely satisfied with Ebay!

Can you imagine a world without Ebay - I would have to stand in the rain or 
freeze my dupa off at Dayton so I could tempt someone to buy what I could 
have sold on Ebay.  Long live Ebay.

David Knepper, W3CRA/W3ST
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie Doran" <qedconsultants at embarqmail.com>
To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
<amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] SPAM on AMRadio

>A bit off the main topic but FYI. I have been buying goodies on Ebay for
> about seven years using pay pal. started getting email telling me that I 
> was
> approaching my spending limit of 10,000. and that I had to be verified for
> security to identify who I am, by providing a bank account number, after
> numerous calls did reach someone that said ignore the email it is 
> phishing.
> a few weeks ago they did cut off my buying completely ,again asking for 
> bank
> account number.   Numerous emails  stating that I can provide credit 
> rating,
> profession registration, drivers license, etc to identify who I am get 
> only
> an automated response to provided bank account number. did reach one 
> person
> that said FAX info to a bad telephone number!
>
> They have the worst customer service that I have ever encountered, almost 
> as
> if they intend to antagonize.   Also not sure how it happened but last
> summer my credit card( the pay pal had) was being used around California 
> and
> it had to be canceled, pay pal is in CA.  Sorry if this is off topic, but 
> I
> thought I would share.   Bernie
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Bewick" <tombewick at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service"
> <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] SPAM on AMRadio (Was Re: amradio at mailman.qth.net 
> hi)
>
>
>> Just a little FYI on this kind of thing.
>> It does not always mean the account has been hacked, the spamers can
>> obtain email address from the group list and send out emails under
>> that address without actually gaining access to the account. I think
>> this is used more often then a hacked account.
>>
>> The following is copied and pasted from Yahoo's help pages on this 
>> matter;
>>
>> "Determining if your Yahoo! Mail address has been forged
>>
>> Most mail systems make it easy for the sender of an email to change
>> the From field that appears in the headers of an email. This may make
>> it (falsely) appear that the email came from your own email address.
>> This is a tactic commonly used by spammers to decieve the recipient as
>> to the true origins of the email.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there is no industry-wide technical solution to this
>> problem. Yahoo! (or any other email provider for that matter) is not
>> able to prevent its domain name from being forged in the headers of an
>> email message, nor is it possible to prevent the misuse of an email
>> address within forged headers. Individuals are strongly discouraged
>> from forging the Yahoo! domain; and if fraud is identified,
>> appropriate action will be taken as necessary.
>>
>> To determine if the email have been forged, you will first have to
>> find out who sent the email. Yahoo! includes the originating Internet
>> Protocol (IP) address in the full Internet headers of all messages
>> sent through Yahoo! Mail so that we will have information regarding
>> the origin of messages sent through our system. The originating IP
>> address should be located in the very last Received line of the full
>> headers and corresponds to the sender's Internet service provider
>> (ISP). For further assistance, please view our help article explaining
>> how to view full email headers.
>>
>> Once you have identified the IP address, you can conduct an IP lookup
>> to determine which ISP provides this person with Internet access. One
>> such lookup tool you may want to try can be found at
>> http://whois.arin.net/ui/.
>>
>> You can then attempt to contact that ISP to see if they may be able to
>> take appropriate action in regards to their user.
>>
>> For additional information on ways to protect your information online,
>> please visit the Yahoo! Security Center."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/5/12, W5AMI <ars.w5ami at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Those of you that have Yahoo email accounts, please be aware of this:
>>>
>>> It seems Yahoo and a few other online email services are having
>>> trouble again with people hacking into others email accounts and
>>> sending SPAM.  The email below is an example of this that slipped
>>> through and got posted to the list.  Since this is basically an
>>> unmoderated list in regard to letting emails go through without
>>> approval from the members, we don't catch these.
>>>
>>> The person below did not know his account was being used, so may be
>>> unaware of this issue.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, I have marked his account individually with a
>>> moderator bit, which will cause any posting he makes to be held until
>>> approved by me or one of the moderators.
>>>
>>> If YOU have a Yahoo email account that you use for this list, and
>>> suddenly you see your posts are not going through right away, it is
>>> possible we have turned on your mod bit due to an email coming through
>>> to this list you were not aware of.  My best suggestion is for all who
>>> use Yahoo, to complain about this right away.  This has been an
>>> ongoing problem for going on two years now, especially with Yahoo
>>> accounts.  I sometime wonder if they are not selling account info of
>>> their holders.
>>>
>>> Thanks for understanding and sorry for the SPAM that came through.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Brian / w5ami
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM,  <w4bni at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> whats up amradio at mailman.qth.net I'm now a new man
>>>> http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> stay in touch
>>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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