[CW] Phishing/Spam (was: Re: Important notice to All Amazon Customers)

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Thank you. Fabian.  I have contacted Scott Neader KA9FOX who runs these
groups.

73

DR



On Aug 5, 2017 11:53 AM, "Fabian Kurz" <fabian at fkurz.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 11:39:12AM -0400, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > Agreed.  Someone has hacked QSL.net and posted  messages as  if  they
> were
> > from the owners of this group, N4XY and  myself.
>
> No worries, this doesn't look like a security breach / hack.
>
> Anyone can simply look up the list owners at the publicly available
> list info (http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw) and it's fair
> to assume that the owners of the group are allowed to post; therefore
> spammers use these addresses to send spam/phishing etc. to the list.
>
> I see this pattern a lot on mailman lists. Annoying, indeed.
>
> 73
> Fabian, DJ1YFK
>
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