[OKDXA] Bogus Messages

[Jerry Chouinard]

A bit more on this.  I'm seeing e-mails manipulated like the below on the 
okdxa.org
e-mail engine and a couple of other organizations I'm familiar with.  The 
only messages
so far have been from okdxa.org to me implying the gremlins are busy scraping
sites for addresses also.  Half the productivity gain in the country has 
been due to
this new chase that apparently keeps the nitwits amused.

K5YAA

At 10:09 PM 3/3/04 -0600, you wrote:
>Bogus ARRL.net messages circulating via e-mail (Mar 3, 2004) -- Several
>members have notified ARRL that they have received e-mail messages alleging
>to be from the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service, "The ARRL.net team" or some
>variation. The messages, which often carry a subject line along the lines of
>"Warning about your e-mail account," indicate that the recipient's ARRL
>E-Mail Forwarding Service <call sign>@arrl.net address will be closed within
>three days because of an alleged violation of acceptable practices. These
>messages are false and did not come from The ARRL Forwarding Service. They
>are the result of one of the variants on a number of viruses now permeating
>the Internet. A file usually is attached to these messages. As always, do
>not open any attachments that you cannot identify. Opening the file could
>result in your computer being infected by a virus. This is only one of the
>several virus-laden messages currently propagating across the Internet. The
>ARRL advises its members to be cautious in opening any message and/or
>attachment, even if it appears to be from someone you know. All of these
>viruses use e-mail addresses from the address book of an infected computer
>to falsify the "From:" address in the header to make it appear that the
>message is from someone the recipient knows.
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