[KYHAM] Spamming using Amateur Call signs
Darrell Jordan
[email protected]
Fri, 07 Feb 2003 18:33:15 +0000
A couple of things to remember. When these people send out spam, they sometimes use a random name generator that just puts together names, letters and numbers and maybe even calls signs to use as addresses. Also, there are some email viruses out there that can spoof who sends it. For example Jim has this virus on his machine and has Bob in his email contact list. The virus will send itself out to everyone in Jim's contact list, but put Bob's name on it as the sender. That way, if the email does get bounced back, then it has Bob's name and it returns it back to Bob. I ran in to this just last month. A guy at church had one of these viruses and I kept getting email from people who I never heard of before containing this virus.
Just a thought on the matter.
dj
Darrell Jordan
KG4AOF
[email protected]
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Joe A. Taylor"
To: [email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Spamming using Amateur Call signs
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:24:28 -0600
Hi Paul et all....
Yep, me too, I have been filing "stolen identity" reports with hotmail.com regularly too.
I get emails bounced back to me that I didn't send. So far all the products that have
bounced back have been fairly legit... I fear finding my call pandering porn. Hotmail
tells me that these messages (I copy and forward to them) are boot-legged and I already knew
that
. They do not carry the proper ID numbers even to be hotmail.com
originated, but they still "appear" to be from me.
>>Joe Taylor << [email protected]
>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected],
>[email protected],[email protected],
>[email protected],[email protected],
>[email protected],[email protected]
>Subject: [KYHAM] Spamming using Amateur Call signs
>Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:34:49 -0500
>
>Hi Guys,
> Not sure any of you have noticed ...But there is a e-mail program
>being
>used to randomly generate e-mail addresses for spamming on the
>Internet...............
>I have received 3 e-mails (selling something) from people claiming
>to be
>N4DUE... This is my call sign and I wish to declare that I
>([email protected]) am not the person or persons creating this junk.
>Attempts to stop this practice have had no effect so far. The
>addresses
>so far have been from out of the country, and are listed below:
>
>[email protected]
>[email protected]
>[email protected]
>
>I feel sure that this is an attempt to sell merchandise by
>referencing
>from one ham to another... So beware
>
>The Real N4DUE
>Paul Mitchell
>721 Kingston road
>Lexington, KY
>
>(In the Book or QRZ)
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