Unusual list spam - caution

[J. Landman Gay]

Thanks very much for the explanation, it was a puzzle. I know someone 
else who got signed up to lists that way, it was a horror. Took him 
weeks to get it all straightened out. What a mess.

I'm really sorry it happened to you.

On 7/10/2015 2:49 PM, Jim MacConnell wrote:
> That was my fault. Someone used my email to sign up for mailing lists,
> sites, etc. I got emails asking for email verification or just informing me
> that "I" had joined roughly 4,000 lists in a couple of hours and it was
> continuing. Used an email rule to respond with a "Not Me" notice and delete
> the emails BUT I inadvertently applied the rule to existing emails instead
> of only new ones coming in. that means even lists I want to be on got
> notices... Dman.
> Sorry for the noise.
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Haworth [mailto:pete at lcsql.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 12:07 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Unusual list spam - caution
>
> I got the same type of emails delivered to my personal email address, both
> from Jim McConnell. Sure sounds like the mailing membership has been hacked
> somehow.  Could this part of the ddos attacks on the forum that have been
> mentioned recently?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:22 AM J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what this means but it probably deserves a heads-up. I
>> received three emails today that appeared to be replies to the three
>> list posts I made yesterday. They were all from the same person, whose
>> name I do not recognize. The entire text of the message was:
>>
>>       This registration used a hijacked email address!
>>
>> followed by a quoted copy of my post. There was no other text.
>>
>> When I first saw these on my Android tablet they each included an
>> enclosure of different lengths. That was the tip-off to check the
>> headers, since this list does not allow enclosures. The headers of a
>> real list mail include "on-rev.com", these had no mention of the
>> on-rev domain. They all came from a private user domain via Quest.
>>
>> I then retrieved the email on my Mac and there are no enclosures
>> listed for any of the three. I'm not sure where they went, I didn't open
> them.
>> They may have been copies of the quoted posts but I'm not sure.
>>
>> At any rate, something odd is going on so keep an eye out.
>>
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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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