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

[Alexander Yeh]

Ruvan Weerasinghe wrote:
> My understanding however is that mail servers that allow this kind of
> mail to be routed through them usually get black listed pretty fast so
> that they end up becoming useless. Good idea to check if in fact the
> main account concerned has been compromised...

One should check.
But there are a lot of mail servers out there, and I frequently get 
unsolicited mail that supposedly came from myself.

-Alex

>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> Ruvan Weerasinghe
> University of Colombo School of Computing
> Colombo 00700,
> Sri Lanka.
>
> Web: http://www.ucsc.lk
> Phone: +94112158953; Fax: +94112587239
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>
>     *From: *"John F. Sowa" <sowa at bestweb.net>
>     *To: *corpora at uib.no
>     *Sent: *Friday, August 19, 2011 7:28:27 AM
>     *Subject: *Re: [Corpora-List] Hacked email accounts (Bill Louw)
>
>     On 8/18/2011 9:05 PM, Alexander Yeh wrote:
>      > I have heard that the "from" field can be faked, at least to a
>     certain
>      > extent.
>
>     That is very easy to fake.
>
>     Just check the "from" field in the spam you receive from companies
>     that look legitimate. They're usually legitimate ids. But the
>     URLs they want you to click are the dangerous ones.
>
>     So if you receive spam with somebody's id in the "from" field,
>     that doesn't necessarily mean that their computer was hijacked.
>     You have to view the hidden headers to see where it really
>     came from.
>
>     It just means that some spammer pasted a legitimate id in the
>     "from" field.
>
>     John
>
>
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