[Corpora-List] Hacked email accounts (Bill Louw)

[Alexander Yeh]

The email may or may not have come from Bill Louw's account.
I do know that when I sending emails to somebody in a particular country,
I start getting spam/scam email from that country (typically in that 
country's commonly used language). So I have a funny feeling that email 
fields are often read by people other than the intended recipients.
I have heard that the "from" field can be faked, at least to a certain 
extent.

Hope this helps
-Alex (spammed in over a dozen different languages, most of which he 
cannot read)

Linas Vepstas wrote:
> I just received a standard email-scam letter from
> Bill Louw's gmail account, and want to
>
> 1) caution everybody here to take care and not loose
> money to the scammers
>
> 2) have someone who knows him personally to
> contact him (by phone, not email!)&  get him
> to fix/cleanup the email account.
>
> 3) The account is louwbill at gmail.com -- for all I know,
> that is not even him, but just something faked up!
> Dunno.
>
> Anyway, beware... and please help/clarify as needed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Linas
>
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