[Spooks] Account Suspension

[Zack Widup]

Yeah, that's kind of what I suspected. What had me thrown off was the
message to one group that I'm am owner of got the message, supposedly sent
by me. AND it showed up in my gmail account "Sent" messages as being sent
by me. I don't know if that is because it was received from an address that
was supposedly mine, so it labeled it as "sent" by me, or what was
happening. I'm not quite sure how gmail sorts messages.

I couldn't make much sense out of it by looking at the full header, either.

Oh well, maybe I'll look at it again later.

73, Zack


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:27 PM, <planophore at aei.ca> wrote:

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> That is how they do it - they "spoof" and email address, make it look
> like the owner of a particular email address has in fact sent the email
> address. Far easier and far more common that "hacking into" someones
> email account. Getting a hold of someones or some businesses email
> contact list can provide many (many) valid emails to use for these
> nefarious purposes.
>
> I always found it a bit funny when these sorts of emails start appearing
> and the first thing someone suggests is that "someones email account
> has got hacked".
>
> Spoofing or forging email has been around a very long time, tools to
> detect such forged emails is getting better but there always seems to be
> some new wrinkle which allows them to fall through the cracks.  Service
> providers use blacklists of servers which are known as sources for such
> crap, email sent from one of those servers regardless of the address is
> simply ignored.
>
> cheers, Graham
>
>
> On 3/7/2017, "Chris Smolinski" <csmolinski at blackcatsystems.com> wrote:
>
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> >Looks like spam that forged my email address. I don’t think they got
> into anyone’s email account, but I wonder if they got a list of group
> owner email addresses from a break-in at qsl.net?
> >
> >> On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
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> >> How are they doing this? This was made to look like it came from Chris's
> >> e-mail address. Did it actually originate there, or did they send it
> from
> >> some other account using Chris's e-mail address as the address in the
> >> e-mail?
> >>
> >> Someone just sent one of these to another group using MY e-mail address.
> >> I'm the owner of that particular group. So I'm concerned about how
> they're
> >> doing this. I did change my personal e-mail account password.
> >>
> >> 73, Zack
> >>
> >
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