Am 15.11.2012 um 16:46 schrieb BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com>: >> From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> > >> Joshua Murphy wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> BRM wrote: >>>> <snip spam> >>>> Hey, >>>> Check this out: >>>> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-desktop+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org> >>>> Bye. Dale :-) :-) >>>> P.S. I wonder if he will get the hint. LOL > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! >>> Probably not, since it looks like a fairly hands-off spam attempt, > but I have to say, I'm rather amused by the attempt to spoof a > Microsoft based site (in url and content) while spamming a Linux > mailing list. It's first-line bait to pull someone into an 'online > employment' scam, by the looks of it, with the added benefit of ad > revenue from those who load that page with a standard browser. >>> >>> Poison [BLX] >>> Joshua M. Murphy >> Well, I did get a reply on another list. He/she seems to have read > it at least. Maybe he/she got the idea. >> As if anyone here would follow a link like that anyway. It's not > like we are a bunch of crazy folks here. lol >> > First, my apologies to this list. I had gotten it from someone else, but > bypassed my better judgement in part thinking being on Linux with Firefox > were solution enough, which interestingly they were not. > Now, the page itself is pretty benign but it provided the spammers a way to > attack webmail sites - e.g. Yahoo! - and go through the address book and sent > out their own e-mails. My guess is that it had to be a hack into Firefox to > support it, but one not yet patched at least by Kubuntu (my work laptop, > which I do keep up to date). > > Ben >
Well it was on the razor list so it got filtered out anyway.
