Am 05.07.24 um 09:24 schrieb Gerald Vogt via mailop:
Hi,
since June 28th we are flooded with thousands of emails from various gmail
accounts going to one of our list addresses.
We have already reported some of them at
https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse
but it didn't really helped. There was a break from July 2nd but today it started again. By now we have got more than
15.000 mails like this.
All mails are a reply to the same automated mail from us, with one line added
before the full quote like
"Thanks again for bringing this matter to my attention."
"Please let me know if that is acceptable with you."
"My great pleasure to meet you last week."
Have you checked whether there is an URL link as well? I recognize this pattern as a kind of social engineering attack
where the attackers use the contents of a hacked mailbox to make their mails look legitimate and get the recipient to
click on some malicious link.
Reporting to Google may or may not help, their abuse desk does not seem to reply, and from the experience with spam from
addresses that were already reported they also don't seem to reply (at least not in a timely fashion that would be
appropriate for this kind of spam).
Cheers,
Hans-Martin
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