Actually, that's not true. As a subscriber to tower talk, I now know David
Gilbert's email address and that towertalk@contesting.com will accept a message
purporting to be from him. Armed with that knowledge and an ISP that doesn't
care if I operate an SMTP server, I can send email to everyone who subscribes
to this list without ever accessing your computer. I don't need to have access
to your address book, only copies emails you've sent or have been sent to you.
And I can get them legitimately.
Al
AB2ZY
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Gilbert
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 4:17 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Unwanted crap msgs
True. It does not require that your computer be hacked, although it likely was
if the spam messages get sent to addresses in your address book.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 3/31/2012 1:06 PM, HansLG@aol.com wrote:
> The sad thing is that "they" only have to know your e-mail address to
> make the spams. "They" can fake it all in their own server. You will
> only know you were hit if some of the e-mails come in return.
>
> Hans - N2JFS
>
>
>
> ____________________________________
> From: bmarx@bellsouth.net
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Sent: 3/29/2012 12:52:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
> Subj: Re: [TowerTalk] Unwanted crap msgs
>
>
> Phishing attempts that are successful, such as this one, are usually
> easily remedied, by changing the email password. That is if it does
> happen to you.
> Bill Marx W2CQ
>
>
>
> On 3/29/2012 10:16 AM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
>> I doubt it was you at all. I looked at the original message header
>> and
> it came from a yahoo server, not sbcglobal.
>> Unless contesting.com takes some measure to validate that messages
> actually originate from a server authorized to send on behalf of a
> domain, anyone with a PC on the internet can install an SMTP server
> and send email to tower talk appearing to be from Jim McLaughlin.
>> Al
>> AB2ZY
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim McLaughlin
> [dearborn9@sbcglobal.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 12:48 AM
>> To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Unwanted crap msgs
>>
>> I'm really sorry. I got hijacked by some means. Trying to do
>> something
> about it. 73
>> Jim- WA9FPT
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