Something is up with emails!

[GraphicDisorder]

for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......

Yahoo changing your password would only have affect on your account sending email "if" it was hacked, not receiving email from others.

[jason-23]

for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......

Yahoo changing your password would only have affect on your account sending email "if" it was hacked, not receiving email from others.

what ever mr.Fing know it all, im telling you that it has worked for me in the past and guess what? it still works........

[inkman996]

Alright Alright Alright!

Let me say this again one more time.

I AM NOT ON YAHOO!

YAHOO has nothing to do with this problem or the price of rice in China.

Lets be clear I am  on our own server email, the emails I am getting are from others seen on the forums, some i have emailed in the past some never not once and no not all of them are on yahoo.

[Shanarchy]

Sam (socalfmf) sent me an e-mail asking me out on a date.

[mk162]

I knew there was something funny about Sam.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[inkman996]

Only problem is he only likes it on the phone

[GraphicDisorder]

for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......

Yahoo changing your password would only have affect on your account sending email "if" it was hacked, not receiving email from others.

what ever mr.Fing know it all, im telling you that it has worked for me in the past and guess what? it still works........

Wow what is your problem?  It's clear you don't know much about this subject.

I guess since we all have Yahoo mail (most of us don't), your fix should work for us all right? 

Dude don't be so defensive. 

The fix you have done probably fixed your issue of being hacked....which has nothing to do with people sending you spam by getting your email address from a list of emails.  I could spam you right now, nothing about your password would stop that. 

[RICK STEFANICK]

i gott 33 today from craigslist ads?? also some went out of my account and a couple people responded.. crazy..

[terryei]

this is what hapened.
Someone had their e-mail account hacked!
The hacker, or the person he sold the accounts to, sent mass e-mails to the persons that were in the hacked account address book.  Happens all the time.  Sometimes the fix can be as simple as changing your password, works for lots of different domaines, but not all the time.  It is a good idea to change your passwords.  The hacker may still be able to hack your IP and use your IP to send out spam.  A good "free" spam filter is Cactus Spam Filter.  Takes just a little bit to "train" it, but works good.
Maybe not a "BIG"  problem receiving spam, happens all the time, but if they get a hold of your IP and spam with that, you may be blocked (all your out going and incoming mail) by AT&T.  Many compaines use AT&T as a backbone, and if this happens, good luck!  You'll be without e-mail for days!
I'm speaking from experiance, as one this has happend to more than once, and one who used to play on the dark side a long time ago.  Remember the first AOL chat rooms from early internet days?  I have a letter from Steven Chase, banning me from AOL for hacking, their servers, and had to write a letter of apology to be allowed back on.  20 some years ago, that was before I became a respecfull businessman in the screen printing business.............hahahahahahaahah that was hard to type.
Terry

[Shanarchy]

Only problem is he only likes it on the phone

Shane Mackie likes this.

Where are ya Sam?

[wiseacre]

I got it too and mine's a hotmail account.  Here's the kicker . . . . the e-mail address I used has only been used in 2 places; to sign up here and at SPOF.  I never send e-mail from it.

[screenxpress]

Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.

Well you haven't actually, you've got emails that appear that way, but actually sent from a different persons email than displaying.

No, I'm pretty sure they actually did come from those people.  I got the one from Diane today and 3 other people and all had 'no message' in the subject line and all contained a similar link...in format.

All 4 of the links ended with PHP?HTML107.

I called and spoke with Diane today.  We think her son got a spam to a Viagra site on his phone that probably had a malicious script that used his phone address book and got Diane's email.  Then I think she clicked the link in the email, she was really busy, from her son and got infected.  Once on that pc, it had her AOL address book as AOL was open.  Hence the distribution.  That pc is a newer one and she didn't think she had the same protection as on her primary pc.

I cannot say this enough.  Always have "current" qualified virus protection running in the background AND do not click on links that do not pass the "smell test".  When I got the emails with no subject, uh bells went off.  Evidently the 3 others that I got from different senders all did the same thing.

Reminds me of the closing line in the original "The Thing" 

"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies."

Probably more appropriate as -
"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Fear the Internet, everywhere, stay aware. Fear the Internet." - lol

[Shanarchy]

I got it too and mine's a hotmail account.  Here's the kicker . . . . the e-mail address I used has only been used in 2 places; to sign up here and at SPOF.  I never send e-mail from it.

Just to clarify, this is not forum (spof) related e-mail harvesting. I got one today from Rick. Only Rick. Had it been forum related we would have all been bombed. Typical situation of someone clicking the wrong link in an e-mail and it sending to everyone in their contact list. Obviously someone in our industry, etc.

Wise, not saying you are accusing. Just want to make sure no one lets paranoia get the best of them.

Now can someone send me that viagra link? Thanks.

[GraphicDisorder]

Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.

Well you haven't actually, you've got emails that appear that way, but actually sent from a different persons email than displaying.

No, I'm pretty sure they actually did come from those people.  I got the one from Diane today and 3 other people and all had 'no message' in the subject line and all contained a similar link...in format.

All 4 of the links ended with PHP?HTML107.

I called and spoke with Diane today.  We think her son got a spam to a Viagra site on his phone that probably had a malicious script that used his phone address book and got Diane's email.  Then I think she clicked the link in the email, she was really busy, from her son and got infected.  Once on that pc, it had her AOL address book as AOL was open.  Hence the distribution.  That pc is a newer one and she didn't think she had the same protection as on her primary pc.

I cannot say this enough.  Always have "current" qualified virus protection running in the background AND do not click on links that do not pass the "smell test".  When I got the emails with no subject, uh bells went off.  Evidently the 3 others that I got from different senders all did the same thing.

Reminds me of the closing line in the original "The Thing" 

"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies."

Probably more appropriate as -
"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Fear the Internet, everywhere, stay aware. Fear the Internet." - lol

Then if you got it from her and three others then as already stated it's likely a site with many of us on it has either been hacked or they offered or sold all of our contact info.  Then a computer will spoof the email of te sender like it's coming from another one of us with the hopes you'd trust it come from someone you recognize or know.    This is the same type of thing you get when you get fishing emails from companies you have accounts.  It's supose to make you think it's came from a trusted source so you give up actual useful info or worse.  this is super common type of fishing or spam.


This sure could have happened to a person here, but many of us have gotten theses emails which means this person would have to had us all in their address book and have gotten fished.  It's been posted that several of these are coming from people that have never exchanged emails so it's more likely this is our emails all being sold or given away by a forum or site we all belong too.

[screenxpress]

Think what you wish.  I respectfully (and humbly) disagree.

I'll add one more reason why.  I got one more tonight from Diane.  But was to my personal email which has never been used at any of the posting sites.

In addition, I expanded the code and looked at the other recipients on this email.  There were 4 others besides me that received it.  I think I won't be disclosing too much by putting this one here -

wasatchteesofatlanta@app.topica.com 

I pretty much doubt that email address could have been harvested from any email list from this site, DI, SPOF, or TSPMB. 

All 5, including me, were in nice, neat alphabetical sequence.  I might check with Diane tomorrow to see if all 5 are in her address book.  A 'yes' answer would vindicate any spurious activities by someone connected to any of the posting boards, imho.