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Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:15:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy Scott writes:
> Well I am on the list and I certainly don't consider myself on of the top
> members of the community - unless I am mistaken, which in that case I'll
> take the glory of it. ;-) I can also guess maybe the emails have been
> harvested from the top headlines section, because AFAIK, all the people you
> listed have posted a top news post, including myself.
Sorry, mate. I haven't posted anything on the top news, and I've been "under
fire" for the past three weeks. Today was a "not so ad" day, only one e-mail
with fake microsoft patches came into my inbox.
> > I'm personally surprised at the persistence of this "attack" -- I've been
> > receiving 2 to 3 per day for the past month or so. It's so bloody obvious,
> > though, that I'd be surprised if anyone was caught by it, but still...
>
> It is real sad. I have done a very good job of staying spam free, and I am
> only on this one list that seems to have targeted Lugnet members. I also
> think this may be a real person who havested the info, since I have a
> spamblock on my email. I also got a porn email that came from the same list
> - nothing but text, but a link that led to an obviously derrogative site.
Same here.
> > I'm not sure what we as a community can do about this other than the obvious
> > (ignore and move on), but I was wondering if anyone knows if this Kim Brodie
> > exists, and if so is he/she aware of what's happening with their email
> > address, and if so can someone go give 'em a whack with the clue stick?
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> We can all change our email and put spamblocks on our posting identity? :-D
> Kim Brodie doubtfully exists, she is probably a surname for the sicko who is
> running this spam ring.
The messages I've received aren't only from "Kim Brodie"; they have a fairly
wide range of names, some are even company names.
To be honest, the thing has now almost become a routine: every day I delete
a number of messages before opening them (the anti-virus is added security
:-) I expect this to fade away in time, hopefully.
Pedro
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