Bogus "account hacked" message

[allison]

On 01/08/2019 03:41 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 01/08/2019 01:25 PM, John Rollins via cctalk wrote:
>> That they found an address used only for a certain mailing list makes
>> it more interesting. Doing a quick Google search it looks like the
>> list archives can be searched through, and while the addresses appear
>> to be slightly obfuscated using “at” instead of “@“, it’s feasible
>> that the address was picked up by a random email address scraping of
>> web data.
>
> I've wondered if some unscrupulous person has subscribed to the list
> so that they can receive a steady stream of email addresses that they
> can potentially send spam / phishing emails to.
>
> I don't remember ever getting one of these types of messages.  So I
> can't comment about them with anything other than 2nd (or more) hand
> knowledge.  Though I run fairly tight anti-spam / anti-virus
> configuration on my server.
>
> I would actually be interested in seeing full messages source,
> including headers, for some of the messages.  (If anyone is willing
> and interested in sharing.)
>


I to have received that phishing attempt many times.

Its actually funny.  The password given is three yahoo (groups) hacks
ago (about 10 years) but the email address
used was a public one way reflector (arrl.net).  So all and all its a
crude phishing attempt.  I write down old
passwords to keep from reuse and I use long mixed ones.  So I know it
was from that and meaningless.

The source is useless as the address is a bogus hack as well.

Same claims of rude and crude caught off the camera save for the systems
use never had one or are
blocked/disconnected(laptops) and at best a stupid threat. I run linux
on multiple flavors/platforms so
typical M$ hacks don't fly either.

I was tempted to buy the smallest bitcoin possible maybe 0.1 cent (1
milliDollar) for laughs
and send that as they deserve the very least for a dumb hack.

Ignore the phoolz and if the password matches current change it consider
changing
them periodically.

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