Good idea. Thanks. 73 Leslie, AD5WB
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Robert Polinski via BVARC <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is a reminder to all, make sure your email address is in your address > book, if someone hijacks you email address book, you will get emails from > yourself letting you know it. Robert > > From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Tomlinson via > BVARC > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:02 PM > To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> > Cc: Bob Tomlinson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [BVARC] How Are You Doing???.............Arthur Caprio > > I assumed it was when I got the reply. Tell Art hello for me when you see him. > > On Jan 16, 2018 1:32 PM, "Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it likely that Art didn't actually send that email. > > It looks like it might be a malware transmission message whose malware > payload was stripped by the mailing list software. Either that, or an > address harvesting thing from a spammer. Possibly both. > > This is based upon the fact that the subject is generic "How are you doing" > and the body asks for a favor, without explaining what the favor might be. I > would normally expect "can you do me a favor" to be in the subject while a > description of the favor itself to be in the body of the message. If you're > sending an email to a mailing list, you are generally encouraged to put the > actual favor itself in the original message because you don't know who will > respond to it, so people need to know what you need in order to know if > they're the one who should respond. Also, I get tons of emails that say > they're from person X while the response goes to somewhere else and the > person, when asked about it, says they never sent the message. > > In the original message, the sender address is Art's real address (at least, > it's the same address as one he used in April of last year to talk about the > baseball game) but the reply-to address is different, going to outlook.com > instead of sbcglobal.net > > Anyway, if it isn't a bogus message, I'd like to be corrected. Keeping track > of the technology that sends out bogus emails is kind of a hobby of mine. > > On 1/16/2018 11:57 AM, Bob Tomlinson via BVARC wrote: > What do you need Art? Remember that I am 2000 miles away. > > On Jan 16, 2018 12:50 AM, "Arthur Caprio via BVARC" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there > > Can you do me a favor ? > > Thanks, > Art Caprio > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > > > -- > Jonathan Guthrie KA8KPN > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected]
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