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From: "Barry Gardner" <barrygardner@mindspring.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
References: <list-3153429@logan.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Network abuse
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:19:42 -0500
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Yeah, I got some of those same bounced messages, indicating that some
spammer was spoofing my name as the "From" address in some of their
junkmail. When the spam hit some bad addresses, I got the <return mail>
message.

I scanned my system for viruses (there were none) and checked the settings
on my firewall (no problems). Some guy is just using our names to peddle
substances claimed to enhance certain organs on males. Any you thought they
just made up all those names!

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 4:50 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Network abuse


> Hi Dale,
>
>     Don't know if your conclusion correct or not.  I do know my e mail was
> not only harvested but "Hijacked" in that it has been used by Spammers as
> the origin for messages I certainly did not send.  However, I get the
> "bounces" from their use of my URL returned to me and indications that
some
> providers are now blocking my URL due to its use by the spammers.  I am
> convinced that the spammers got my e mail from a Yahoo list I joined.   I
> also noted in one case that a harvester had gotten into the address list
of
> my own service provider.  My service provider is now blocking virus on its
> on and fortunately I rarely see one that has not been "disabled" already.
>
>   So the fact that you might get a message from me containing Spam or
worst
> yet a virus, don't mean it came from me.  I use Norton's anti-virus to
scan
> both incoming and outgoing mail and have a hardware firewall, so its very
> unlikely it would come from me, but it could some from a spammer or others
> that have "Hijacked" my e mail URL.
>
> Frankly, I don't know what you can do about it.  Switching URL is
certainly
> a pain.
>
> Ed
>
>
> Ed Anderson
> RV-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
> Matthews, NC
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dale R." <rogersda@myway.com>
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:35 PM
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Network abuse
>
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> >    I was afraid of this.  We have a spammer harvesting addresses
> > from our list archive.
> >
> > Just an hour after posting my first message from my new (to this
> > list) address, I started getting the same kind of spam that started
> > shortly after my last move from email.com to cox.net.  In the
> > previous 10 months that I've had this address, I had never received
> > a single piece of SPAM.
> >
> >    Also, I wonder if someone with Jim Sower's address has an infected
> > computer.  I recieved a message, through the list, with no text -
> > just an attached file: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailPU.gif
> >
> > I'm not on a computer I can put at risk, right now , so I haven't
> attempted to download and scan to see if it's legit.
> >
> > Sorry to take up list bandwidth this way, but it _could_ become
> > important.
> >
> > Dale R.
> > COZY MkIV-R #1254
> >
> >
> >
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