[Elecraft] (OT} Spam influx

[Terry Schieler]

And, unfortunately, AT&T chooses to use Yahoo to process email for AT&T customers, so AT&T email domains like mine that end in @swbell.net, @sbcglobal.net, @bellsouth.net, @att.net, etc are as vulnerable as the accounts that actually say "Yahoo" in the address.  Don't let the fact that your email domain does not say YAHOO lull you into a false sense of security.  I found that out the hard way.  

Maybe AT&T is listening.   
Naw.


Terry, W0FM


-----Original Message-----
From: KD7YZ Bob [mailto:kd7yz at denstarfarm.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:49 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT} Spam influx


On Tuesday SR used a Straight-Key to send:
-------------Original Comment-------
> no spam here!


I've received dozens of Lam-Radio "List" emails where, in every case, the respective Ham owns a YAHOO free email account and their account password has been hacked/compromised. Literally Dozens just today.

Some people need to take some Internet Security classes comparable to the studying they did to get licensed. Yahoo, for one, may lead the world, along with Hotmail, in the frequency of which their "customers" get Hacked on a per-year basis.

Many of us have auto-Spam-reject. Those compromised email addresses get put on a Blacklist. Automatically. We don't see it happen and we don't get email from our friends anymore either ... until we figure out they were compromised and "Their" address sent out 100,000 Spam Emails, world-wide, and garnered them a Blacklist status across the globe.


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Best regards,
Bob  KD7YZ    Win7-64bit + K3