Re: AMC List appears to be hacked into -- don't get allarmed!!

[farna@xxxxxxx]

On occasion some smart... intentionally signs one of these spammers onto the list. Other lists have the same problem. Sometimes it's someone being funnny, sometimes it's the spammer signing up. When I find one of these I'll ban the address, which will cut it for a while -- until someone signs another one up. 

The poinit is you are in no danger of getting additional SPAM through the list. When you receive a list message it should be clear that the message is not from a list member from the subject and content. Ignore the message, and don't click on any links unless you know who the message is from. If someone has their e-mail address blocked out it will shaw as "mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx". Don't click on the link if you're not sure where ANY e-mail came from. That's just good general advice. 

With the commericalization of the Internet came spammers. There's no way to get rid of them now, the same as there's no way to get rid of junk mail. The internet is cheap and easy to spam, so it will continue to happen. The only recourse you have is to report the spam to your service provider. I know it's frustrating because the smart spammers continually change addresses and/or fake addresses, making them hard to track down and stop. I report 5-10 e-mails DAILY as spam to my ISP (they make it easy!), and it rarely does much good. It will die down for a while, then a new spammer will start all over again. 35% of my e-mail is spam. I could change my e-mail address and reduce it to almost nil for a while, but then I'd lose a lot of potential customers. So I go through the list and delete/report SPAM, then messages I know who sent but don't want to read, then read the 30% of e-mails that are worth a look. I too wish there was another way! 


On December 27, 2005 Dan Curtis wrote:

> It would appear from an email I received earlier this evening that contained all list members as recipients of the email that either the AMC list server has been hacked into or someone with all list members email IDs in their address book has been hacked into.  Most likely all other information on the list is accessible as well so be very careful as to what you post until this security breach has been resolved.
> 
> Of equal importance, the hotlink in the email is most likely a Trojan Horse which will infect anyone's computer who accesses the link.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Dan Curtis
> d.curtis@xxxxxxx
> 602 317 2018


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