Bogus "account hacked" message

[Grant Taylor]

On 01/08/2019 02:11 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
> My concern is for anyone on the mailing list who finds the the outrageous 
> claims in these spams to be vaguely plausable and might be quitely 
> sweating and considering paying these slimeballs while embarrassed to 
> ask for advice first, thinking that they are the only ones receiving 
> these emails.

True.

> I worked in the email field for about 15 years.  I operate my own mail 
> server, I use lots of different email addresses for different purposes 
> and I am very careful with them.  I receive almost zero spam on my 
> cctech/cctalk email address.

Agreed.

> In case anyone doesn't know because they receive a lot of spam direct 
> to their email address, practically no spam at all is delivered through 
> the classiccmp listserver - Jay does a tremendous job in stopping spam 
> from arriving via that path.

I wish more mailing lists were as diligent.  I see a LOT of spam come 
through specific lists.  More than I typically see in Usenet newsgroups. 
  :-/



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Grant. . . .
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