[Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

[Kevin - K4VD]

Do people still have problems with SPAM? I've noticed a significant drop in
the past year or so. Using Google GMail, they catch most of the spam before
I ever see it. I do check my spam folder at times just in case but boy oh
boy SPAM seems to have become a lot less of a problem lately.

In the case of the OP, he's using a disposable address. I think Lynn is
giving us a warning to be careful and not so much complaining he received
spam. I think?

I 100% agree... careful what you open. Also be aware, your email is already
known to anyone who cares to dig. No real covert technique required. For
that matter, so's your home address.

Kev K4VD

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Reuben Popp <reuben.popp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's not be hasty in our judgement...
>
> To be fair, it would be trivial to write a small script to harvest any
> string that looks like an email address that follows the form of
> /\w\sat\s\w\.(com|net|org|tld)/ (that's a word followed by a space
> followed
> by 'at' followed by space followed by a word followed by a period and a
> tld).
>
> Just saying... our email addresses are plastered all over, and the above
> form of obfuscation is fairly easy to defeat.  And then, there's places
> where it's not obfuscated in the least, such as
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/_rtty/2015-01/msg00047.html
>
> which contains your "exclusive" address in its entirety with no
> obfuscation.
>
> Not trying to call you out here, I'm just pointing out that there's a
> million ways for me to acquire an address (if I were up to nefarious
> designs).
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT <
> KX3 at coldrockshotbrooms.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to thank the person who opened an E-Mail attachment that should
> > not have been opened.
> >
> > The attachment contained a trojan horse -- malware that then harvested
> > E-Mail addresses from their machine.
> >
> > I know it was a list member, because my E-Mail address for this list is
> > exclusively used for this list, and I'm now getting unwanted "spoofed"
> mail
> > telling me about packages that are undeliverable, or that I need to
> appear
> > in court.
> >
> > Those E-Mails have attachments, allegedly containing the details of my
> > offense or how to claim the package.
> >
> > The E-Mail is very generic.  If you read it critically, there is nothing
> > that says it is from a legitimate shipper, legitimate court -- just a
> > slightly scary call to action.
> >
> > It's another trojan horse.
> >
> > It seems to me that after 3,000 years, we would have learned to keep the
> > metaphorical horse outside our cities, but no, there are some who say
> "look
> > at the pretty horse!" and we all suffer.
> >
> > Thank you for your future consideration.  I'll go change my E-Mail
> address
> > now.
> >
> > 73 -- Lynn
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