[TheForge] Watch out for this s p a m!

[jerry Frost]

I HATE that feature and have disabled it when possible, if not I dump the
"service." On the other side of the scale our ISP "MTA" has instituted some
pretty draconian anti-scam and spammer policies. You can't send out more
than 100 copies of an E-mail so news letters have to be through a commercial
acct and have permission.

Something that's becoming more and more true every day is the adage. Post it
online and it's there forever. I even got a spam from Chris Ray's
"Sirocetar" address once.

It probably wasn't Ray's acct that was hacked he's probably in someone's
address book or someone just phished the address from archives or old list
addresses, fora, or just drifting on the net.

The more the web develops the more I wish for William Gibson's novel
"Neuromancer" anti malware, called ICE and BlackICE. ICE would hurt a
hacker's system but BlackICE would hunt down and hurt the person behind it.

Sorry for getting off on a ramble.

Jer

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce
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Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Watch out for this s p a m!

Jerry,
No, I checked.  Not there.
Gmail has a nasty feature that recalls email addresses "for your
convenience." Start typing a name in the "to" slot and a list of names and
addresses comes up -- some of which you don't even WANT there.  Can't get
rid of them.  But Ray's address is not in that either.  So I figure his
account must have been hacked after he died.

Bruce
NJ