Re: Fwd: Beware FAKE e-mails being sent as though from list
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:00:43PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Had to forward because the list bounced it as having an attachment (html
> iframe which I now removed from message)
>
> - ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
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> Subject: Beware FAKE e-mails being sent as though from list
> Date: Monday 30 Dec 2002 3:01 pm
> From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> I just received an e-mail that looked as though it at come from this list,
> (from "nate" ) but in closer inspection it had done nothing of the sort
> having been forwarded through a mail server at free.fr from a dial up account
> at proxad.net
>
> It seems to have a screensave file dressed up to look like a standard text
> file.
This is a very common virus, forging e-mail addresses it finds on the
victim computer. It is not forging the address of the list, but that of
an individual; either way, it's automatic and vanishingly unlikely to be
explicitly targeted at readers of this list.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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