Subject: [WSFA] Re: Disregard spam falsely claiming to be from Sam Lubell
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:11:36 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 12/13/18 23:47, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> A message was just sent to the list by someone forging Sam Lubell's
> name.  It wasn't sent by him, and bad things will probably happen
> to your computer if you click on the links in it.
>
> This probably means that someone on this list had their Windows
> computer compromised by malware, which pirated their address book,
> and will use it to forge messages from various people in it to
> various other people in it, perhaps to spread copies of the same
> malware, or worse.  Some may go through the list and some may
> seem to come directly to you from WSFA members or other people
> you know.
>
> Don't click on any links unless you're *certain* that the alleged
> sender really sent it.
>
> Interestingly, Erica's computer correctly rejected it as spam.

As I do *not* read my email as HTML, but as plain text, I found it interesting
that someone claiming to be Sam would be posting from South Africa (the email
address ended in .za).

mark
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