[FPSPACE] Hi! I have a surprise for you!

Rick Kline kline at astro.cornell.edu
Thu Feb 19 11:29:23 EST 2009


All,

Yeah, it looked like an e-mail spoof as soon as I opened it.  Still 
annoying for recipients and especially for the person whose address is 
spoofed.  We've probably all been victims of spoofs at one time or 
another.  If not, you're lucky.
Rick

Robert Law wrote:
>
> Dave,
>  
> I certainly did not send this spam out  and would never do anything 
> like this
> someone has hijacked my email ,but was only sent to 4 addresses in my 
> address book
> which unfortunately fpspace was one of them.
>  
> regards
>  
> Robert
>  
> p.s. met you at the recent ASG meeting in Glasgow
> --- On *Thu, 2/19/09, David Woods /<drwoods at stny.rr.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: David Woods <drwoods at stny.rr.com>
>     Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Hi! I have a surprise for you!
>     To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
>     Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 1:05 PM
>
>     Folks,
>
>     We are a subscriber membership discussion forum so that cuts out a
>     lot of spam.  Unfortunately, we had something like this a few
>     years ago where something appeared to come from a member
>     subscriber and it got passed on to the membership.  To protect
>     yourself, *NEVER* click on a *.exe file that is sent to you unless
>     you can confirm who it is from, and even then be careful.  In this
>     particular case the link name should have told you that it was
>     spam and should be deleted without even opening it.  Sorry if it
>     gave anyone any problems.
>
>     Dave Woods
>     FPSpace Administrator
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: 	Re: [FPSPACE] Hi! I have a surprise for you!
>     Date: 	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:31:32 EST
>     From: 	Kosmos327 at aol.com
>     To: 	robert_law at yahoo.com
>     CC: 	drwoods at stny.rr.com
>
>
>
>     Hi Robert. I have a hunch this was not actually sent by you. This
>     appears to be more of a hacked email.
>      
>     David L. Rickman
>      
>      
>     In a message dated 2/19/2009 12:17:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>     robert_law at yahoo.com writes:
>
>         Hey, I have something for you! I hope you will like it!
>         http://homeearnmoney.com/setup.exe
>
>      
>
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