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Special Events Forums => Friday Squad Operations => Topic started by: TUK on March 30, 2011, 01:51:30 PM

Title: Spam
Post by: TUK on March 30, 2011, 01:51:30 PM

Any other squad contacts getting spammed like I am?  Someone keeps sending me e-mails that are spam along with the other contacts in the FSO mailing list.  :headscratch:

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: gyrene81 on March 30, 2011, 02:20:47 PM

no spam in my account.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: daddog on March 30, 2011, 02:58:29 PM

None here.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: perdue3 on March 30, 2011, 03:08:03 PM

I always send the orders through a BCC so that I do not infect the whole list. I suggest al CiC's to do the same. Just common courtesy. I send the email to my other accound and place all FSO contacts in the BCC.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: StokesAk on March 30, 2011, 03:19:00 PM

I get a lot of spam recently, not on the offical mailing list though.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Nefarious on March 30, 2011, 03:52:43 PM

Quote from: daddog on March 30, 2011, 02:58:29 PM

None here.

I got one yesterday to @ahevents.org and reported it as spam.

Actually... just checked my spam folder and had 28 messages.  :O

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: TUK on March 30, 2011, 04:21:02 PM

I think that there is a recent person that sent out orders, to an axis or allied fso mail group, that is spamming that whole group now.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: gyrene81 on March 30, 2011, 04:44:17 PM

could be a spoofed email addy...can you guys look at the headers on those spam messages and see the point of origin?

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Krusty on March 30, 2011, 06:43:15 PM

99% of all spam is an automated collection process that then sends out these addresses to be spammed by another automated proccess that bulk-sends millions of e-mails at once.

Nobody's targetting you in as much as the entire Internet is being targeted due to archaic SMTP protocols that allow anybody to edit the headers as they send mail.

They need a serious revamping of the Internet e-mail system but nobody's really doing anything about the basic levels yet. It's still running on pre-1990 standards -- which were set when folks trusted each other and spam didn't exist.

</rant>

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Bino on March 31, 2011, 05:01:12 AM

Yup, I just got a piece of spam email.  Looks to me like maybe someone with access to the FSO Axis list got hacked.

BTW, does using the BCC ("blind carbon copy") feature really help prevent this?

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Krusty on March 31, 2011, 08:52:47 AM

Doesn't mean they got hacked specifically. Means that they had spiders or bots roaming the web collecting any and every e-mail in the world, collecting lists, and then sending spam to it. Or possibly (I've always suspected this as well) they randomly generate the names, and often set different return paths so that even if they bounce the second target still gets the spam message.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Chapel on March 31, 2011, 03:03:07 PM

I used the CC (carbon copy) function to send out the Axis orders...hopefully that didn't inflict any pain on anyone.
I didn't even think to go one deeper into the BCC...but will do so from here on out.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Becinhu on March 31, 2011, 03:12:25 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o

sorry.....i had to.