[Elecraft] Junk mail from elecraft...

[David Gilbert]

I haven't seen any of that kind of thing from the Elecraft mailing list, 
so I doubt it has anything at all to do with the QTH.com servers.  
Instead, I suspect that you are on some junk mail mailing list and the 
senders are phishing (faking) the qth.com mailing address to make it 
appear as the sender.  The email wouldn't have passed through the 
QTH.com server at all ... it would just look like it.  It happens all 
the time.  I maintain a website that has an embedded link for a mailing 
address that I never use for outgoing mail, but incoming mail to it is 
forwarded to my regular email address.  I periodically get "recipient 
not found" messages containing spam that looks like it was sent from 
that address but which bounced when they hit the far end, and the bounce 
got forwarded to me.  My web site hasn't been hacked ... someone is just 
phishing the address.

It is also possible (maybe even likely) that some robot has harvested an 
email sent by you in order to get not only your email address for the 
destination but also a sent-from address to phish that you'd recognize.  
That wouldn't be difficult to do from some public archive.

73,
Dave   AB7E






On 5/28/2011 11:06 PM, John Ragle wrote:
> It looks to me like the elecraft at mailman.qth.net input filters have been
> compromised -- I am getting junk mail spam from the sex trade via the
> Elecraft server. I see that "QTH.COM" appears to be the underlying
> service, so perhaps it is the source of the junk? I have complained to
> the webmaster at Elecraft, who says that he can do nothing, although in
> my experience as SO of several list servers, I don't see this as true.
>
> Someone (a legitimate someone) on this list suggested one should simply
> ignore the specious stuff, but I don't agree. If it is QTH.COM that is
> at fault, it is time to switch ISPs. Just hoping it will go away is
> entirely the wrong approach...instead, it will just get worse and worse.
> I have supported QTH.COM with cash contributions in the past, but it
> looks like a lot of this has been wasted.
>
> My ISP removes ~100 such messages a day from my email stream, but
> because elecraft at mailman.qth.net   is a permitted contributor to my
> email, there is little my ISP or I can do about this mail, other than
> blacklisting the elecraft server. I am loath to do this. If this is a
> spoofing attack, then Elecraft should consider changing its list server
> name.
>
> Reaction?
>
> John Ragle -- W1ZI
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