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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: inkman996 on July 26, 2011, 12:57:58 PM
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I just got spammed by three different users all at once. Spam was sent under their email contact, Color Your world, Gerry Welch, and Stitches I believe is the third. Something is telling my one of these forums has had the email accounts hacked or harvested. Is anyone else getting these?
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Yeah, I just received one from a member as well.
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It's Yahoo accounts and yes I have received a bunch over the past week. Yahoo changed their
email format to be "safer" (they've always had problems with their accounts being hacked) but
apparently it didn't work.
I know of no fix other than deleting the account. Stupid yahoo.
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Nope not yahoo accounts. I just did some digging and Gerryppg is not even a member here so its not this forum, also I do not believe Diane (color your world) is a member at digitsmith so not that forum. In the header there is tons of industry related people it was carbon copied to. So it is obvious a forums emails has been harvested. Unless some of our industry members have decided to start selling prescriptions.
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Now I got one from Brandt at graphic disorder, has two suspicious attachments oh boy there is trouble on the horizon.
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Now I got one from Brandt at graphic disorder, has two suspicious attachments oh boy there is trouble on the horizon.
I have sent nobody anything like that so I can tell you thats gotta be bunk.
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You can use Yahoo with a vanity domain.
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Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.
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Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.
Well you haven't actually, you've got emails that appear that way, but actually sent from a different persons email than displaying.
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I have also gotten spammed, I have been spammed before in the past and the fix is to change your password on your yahoo account to 13 character with letters, numbers and symbols like this !Password12$?
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huh, this is pretty simple. Somebody in the industry had their account hacked or contact list harvested somehow. No matter what you do now, your email is their system and they will keep spamming you. Changing the passwords or anything else, short of changing your email address, will not help.
use good spam filtering email program and you will be OK.
pierre
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Jason my email is not Yahoo it is our own domain? Thing is some of these emails are using accounts I never recieved emails from in thepast, for instance gerryppg. Never have me and him passed emails so it is weird that he is one of the ones I am getting them from.
On another note about 2 months ago I got an onslaught of spam from some xsocial BS all made it to the spam folder but it seemed like a weird coincidence since it happened at about the same time someone threatened me with internet warfare.
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Jason my email is not Yahoo it is our own domain? Thing is some of these emails are using accounts I never recieved emails from in thepast, for instance gerryppg. Never have me and him passed emails so it is weird that he is one of the ones I am getting them from.
On another note about 2 months ago I got an onslaught of spam from some xsocial BS all made it to the spam folder but it seemed like a weird coincidence since it happened at about the same time someone threatened me with internet warfare.
Someone in the screen print world either sold our address or has been hacked and has all of our addresses in their addy book. Simple as that. Either way spam filter will solve it.
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for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......
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I got one from Diane too, with no message, which is how I suspected spam.
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for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......
Yahoo changing your password would only have affect on your account sending email "if" it was hacked, not receiving email from others.
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for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......
Yahoo changing your password would only have affect on your account sending email "if" it was hacked, not receiving email from others.
what ever mr.Fing know it all, im telling you that it has worked for me in the past and guess what???? it still works........
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Alright Alright Alright!
Let me say this again one more time.
I AM NOT ON YAHOO!
YAHOO has nothing to do with this problem or the price of rice in China.
Lets be clear I am on our own server email, the emails I am getting are from others seen on the forums, some i have emailed in the past some never not once and no not all of them are on yahoo.
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Sam (socalfmf) sent me an e-mail asking me out on a date.
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I knew there was something funny about Sam. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Only problem is he only likes it on the phone ;D
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for yahoo changing my password in the past has fixed to problem......
Yahoo changing your password would only have affect on your account sending email "if" it was hacked, not receiving email from others.
what ever mr.Fing know it all, im telling you that it has worked for me in the past and guess what???? it still works........
Wow what is your problem? It's clear you don't know much about this subject.
I guess since we all have Yahoo mail (most of us don't), your fix should work for us all right?
Dude don't be so defensive.
The fix you have done probably fixed your issue of being hacked....which has nothing to do with people sending you spam by getting your email address from a list of emails. I could spam you right now, nothing about your password would stop that.
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i gott 33 today from craigslist ads?? also some went out of my account and a couple people responded.. crazy..
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this is what hapened.
Someone had their e-mail account hacked!
The hacker, or the person he sold the accounts to, sent mass e-mails to the persons that were in the hacked account address book. Happens all the time. Sometimes the fix can be as simple as changing your password, works for lots of different domaines, but not all the time. It is a good idea to change your passwords. The hacker may still be able to hack your IP and use your IP to send out spam. A good "free" spam filter is Cactus Spam Filter. Takes just a little bit to "train" it, but works good.
Maybe not a "BIG" problem receiving spam, happens all the time, but if they get a hold of your IP and spam with that, you may be blocked (all your out going and incoming mail) by AT&T. Many compaines use AT&T as a backbone, and if this happens, good luck! You'll be without e-mail for days!
I'm speaking from experiance, as one this has happend to more than once, and one who used to play on the dark side a long time ago. Remember the first AOL chat rooms from early internet days? I have a letter from Steven Chase, banning me from AOL for hacking, their servers, and had to write a letter of apology to be allowed back on. 20 some years ago, that was before I became a respecfull businessman in the screen printing business.............hahahahahahaahah that was hard to type.
Terry
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Only problem is he only likes it on the phone ;D
Shane Mackie likes this.
Where are ya Sam?
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I got it too and mine's a hotmail account. Here's the kicker . . . . the e-mail address I used has only been used in 2 places; to sign up here and at SPOF. I never send e-mail from it.
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Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.
Well you haven't actually, you've got emails that appear that way, but actually sent from a different persons email than displaying.
No, I'm pretty sure they actually did come from those people. I got the one from Diane today and 3 other people and all had 'no message' in the subject line and all contained a similar link...in format.
All 4 of the links ended with PHP?HTML107.
I called and spoke with Diane today. We think her son got a spam to a Viagra site on his phone that probably had a malicious script that used his phone address book and got Diane's email. Then I think she clicked the link in the email, she was really busy, from her son and got infected. Once on that pc, it had her AOL address book as AOL was open. Hence the distribution. That pc is a newer one and she didn't think she had the same protection as on her primary pc.
I cannot say this enough. Always have "current" qualified virus protection running in the background AND do not click on links that do not pass the "smell test". When I got the emails with no subject, uh bells went off. Evidently the 3 others that I got from different senders all did the same thing.
Reminds me of the closing line in the original "The Thing"
"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies."
Probably more appropriate as -
"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Fear the Internet, everywhere, stay aware. Fear the Internet." - lol
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I got it too and mine's a hotmail account. Here's the kicker . . . . the e-mail address I used has only been used in 2 places; to sign up here and at SPOF. I never send e-mail from it.
Just to clarify, this is not forum (spof) related e-mail harvesting. I got one today from Rick. Only Rick. Had it been forum related we would have all been bombed. Typical situation of someone clicking the wrong link in an e-mail and it sending to everyone in their contact list. Obviously someone in our industry, etc.
Wise, not saying you are accusing. Just want to make sure no one lets paranoia get the best of them.
Now can someone send me that viagra link? Thanks.
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Not sure what you are saying EB? I recieved emails from both AOL, YAHOO, and actual domain emails.
Well you haven't actually, you've got emails that appear that way, but actually sent from a different persons email than displaying.
No, I'm pretty sure they actually did come from those people. I got the one from Diane today and 3 other people and all had 'no message' in the subject line and all contained a similar link...in format.
All 4 of the links ended with PHP?HTML107.
I called and spoke with Diane today. We think her son got a spam to a Viagra site on his phone that probably had a malicious script that used his phone address book and got Diane's email. Then I think she clicked the link in the email, she was really busy, from her son and got infected. Once on that pc, it had her AOL address book as AOL was open. Hence the distribution. That pc is a newer one and she didn't think she had the same protection as on her primary pc.
I cannot say this enough. Always have "current" qualified virus protection running in the background AND do not click on links that do not pass the "smell test". When I got the emails with no subject, uh bells went off. Evidently the 3 others that I got from different senders all did the same thing.
Reminds me of the closing line in the original "The Thing"
"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking. Keep watching the skies."
Probably more appropriate as -
"Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world. Tell this to everybody, wherever they are. Fear the Internet, everywhere, stay aware. Fear the Internet." - lol
Then if you got it from her and three others then as already stated it's likely a site with many of us on it has either been hacked or they offered or sold all of our contact info. Then a computer will spoof the email of te sender like it's coming from another one of us with the hopes you'd trust it come from someone you recognize or know. This is the same type of thing you get when you get fishing emails from companies you have accounts. It's supose to make you think it's came from a trusted source so you give up actual useful info or worse. this is super common type of fishing or spam.
This sure could have happened to a person here, but many of us have gotten theses emails which means this person would have to had us all in their address book and have gotten fished. It's been posted that several of these are coming from people that have never exchanged emails so it's more likely this is our emails all being sold or given away by a forum or site we all belong too.
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Think what you wish. I respectfully (and humbly) disagree.
I'll add one more reason why. I got one more tonight from Diane. But was to my personal email which has never been used at any of the posting sites.
In addition, I expanded the code and looked at the other recipients on this email. There were 4 others besides me that received it. I think I won't be disclosing too much by putting this one here -
wasatchteesofatlanta@app.topica.com
I pretty much doubt that email address could have been harvested from any email list from this site, DI, SPOF, or TSPMB.
All 5, including me, were in nice, neat alphabetical sequence. I might check with Diane tomorrow to see if all 5 are in her address book. A 'yes' answer would vindicate any spurious activities by someone connected to any of the posting boards, imho.
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Think what you wish. I respectfully (and humbly) disagree.
Your disagreeing with what exactly?
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Then if you got it from her and three others then as already stated it's likely a site with many of us on it has either been hacked or they offered or sold all of our contact info. Then a computer will spoof the email of te sender like it's coming from another one of us with the hopes you'd trust it come from someone you recognize or know. This is the same type of thing you get when you get fishing emails from companies you have accounts. It's supose to make you think it's came from a trusted source so you give up actual useful info or worse. this is super common type of fishing or spam.
This sure could have happened to a person here, but many of us have gotten theses emails which means this person would have to had us all in their address book and have gotten fished. It's been posted that several of these are coming from people that have never exchanged emails so it's more likely this is our emails all being sold or given away by a forum or site we all belong too.
The idea that this talked about activity is from phishing, sold or given emails, or spoofing.
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I got 4 emails. When you see them, it's obvious they are spam.
When I looked at all of he other names in each, I Their were 5 email addresses in each.
to especially point out one of them, was from a name I am not familiar with as being related with screen printing. He had 3 different email addresses in that list that happens to be all his. They were included with my address in the listing because they were all close in alphabetical order. One of them was for a site he registered to (that he typically would not want others seeing). That tells me that
A,I am very sure, he did not send them.
B, the victims are not all "screen print related". I think i can say that for the other email addresses as well. If you look at yours, (and ALL of the email address), I bet you can find that some of them are not screen printers (or anything related). Maybe they are customers, but some of the names on mine were like Publix Corporation email and CNN. Random stuff.
It's some sort of harvesting process. I would bet that at some point, somewhere, our "list " of screen print names from some forum were hacked and ganged in with some other sort of list or multiple list. That probably helps with the randomness of the act. Really, if I were to guess, it would most likely have come from TSPMB well before the clean up from the HIRSH people. A few months ago, they had a lot of spam on it but was recently cleaned up at some point.
truthfully, I don't have a clue how they do all this but it's just assumptions.
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Nope not yahoo accounts. I just did some digging and Gerryppg is not even a member here so its not this forum, also I do not believe Diane (color your world) is a member at digitsmith so not that forum. In the header there is tons of industry related people it was carbon copied to. So it is obvious a forums emails has been harvested. Unless some of our industry members have decided to start selling prescriptions.
I actually am gerryppg. Its the email I use at my full time job. We sell PPG paint. This happened to both of my emails that end with @yahoo.com. It did not happen with the email that I use for my business. I dont know whats going on but I am sorry for anyones inconvienence.
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Jason my email is not Yahoo it is our own domain? Thing is some of these emails are using accounts I never recieved emails from in thepast, for instance gerryppg. Never have me and him passed emails so it is weird that he is one of the ones I am getting them from.
On another note about 2 months ago I got an onslaught of spam from some xsocial BS all made it to the spam folder but it seemed like a weird coincidence since it happened at about the same time someone threatened me with internet warfare.
Actually we did have a short email convo before I got my business email. I recall asking how you liked your Tuf press.
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Someone got a virus. The virus is spamming all of you via email spoofing. It looks like it came from a person but it's actually not. The sender of the message is forged.
Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing)
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Someone got a virus. The virus is spamming all of you via email spoofing. It looks like it came from a person but it's actually not. The sender of the message is forged.
Read this:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing[/url] ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing[/url])
Exactly....
Also happens when forums sell complete email lists, which is less common but it happens.
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Then if you got it from her and three others then as already stated it's likely a site with many of us on it has either been hacked or they offered or sold all of our contact info. Then a computer will spoof the email of te sender like it's coming from another one of us with the hopes you'd trust it come from someone you recognize or know. This is the same type of thing you get when you get fishing emails from companies you have accounts. It's supose to make you think it's came from a trusted source so you give up actual useful info or worse. this is super common type of fishing or spam.
This sure could have happened to a person here, but many of us have gotten theses emails which means this person would have to had us all in their address book and have gotten fished. It's been posted that several of these are coming from people that have never exchanged emails so it's more likely this is our emails all being sold or given away by a forum or site we all belong too.
The idea that this talked about activity is from phishing, sold or given emails, or spoofing.
Then please explain in detail how several screen printers are getting forged/spoofed emails from other screen printers that they actually didn't send? The emails have came from some where, did someone just get lucky and guess all of the email addresses to send these emails to? Do you even know how email works? Have you ever set up a email server, and I am not talking about you creating a yahoo account or something, have you built, installed, and maintained a email server of ANY size? Please tell us your qualifications in this area.
Phishing to one extent or another is exactly how these addresses end up in the wild. Either a person was phished/got a virus, a site was phished, or a email list was sold, and frankly maybe all 3. Once any of those happen to one person it takes about 10 seconds for one of those things to be sent all over the damn place so once it happens "our" addresses are all out there. Why is it you think spam never really stops? You can filter it all you like, its not going to stop, you just can hope to contain it.
So you are trying to say this Diane person is the total cause of this? Your saying Inkman and her exchange emails? He got emails from several people. Did he get one from Diane? Inkman are you in Diane's email list? Inkman you also got one from me, and you know my computer is not only locked down but you know its not sending spam. Clearly spoofed email. So is my email in Dianes email list too? I don't recall ever talking to this Diane person. Anyway I don't think you understand that probably everyone here every day receives a spoofed email from a computer (not even a real person most of the time), and its in attempts to get them to either get a virus, or go to a site, or to get more mail addresses to rise and repeat.
Kudos to inkbrigade, maybe some people will read up on this, reposting for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing)
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Gerry sorry i did not recall ever getting an email from you in the past its been a while I guess. I checked my address book and you were not in there so I assumed we never corresponded. As for Diane (Color Your World) I might have gotten email from her in the past not sure.
Brandt the email I got from you was your marketing blast but with two unrecognizable attachments included.
Not sure what the real deal is going on here, seems it may be just one person got their email hacked and is spoofing some of the contacts from it.
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I'm a looser. I have my email plastered in a lot of places. No spam for me. (I'm making the "L" sign with my index and thumb right now on my forehead).
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Then please explain in detail how several screen printers are getting forged/spoofed emails from other screen printers that they actually didn't send? The emails have came from some where, did someone just get lucky and guess all of the email addresses to send these emails to? Do you even know how email works? Have you ever set up a email server, and I am not talking about you creating a yahoo account or something, have you built, installed, and maintained a email server of ANY size? Please tell us your qualifications in this area.
Phishing to one extent or another is exactly how these addresses end up in the wild. Either a person was phished/got a virus, a site was phished, or a email list was sold, and frankly maybe all 3. Once any of those happen to one person it takes about 10 seconds for one of those things to be sent all over the damn place so once it happens "our" addresses are all out there. Why is it you think spam never really stops? You can filter it all you like, its not going to stop, you just can hope to contain it.
So you are trying to say this Diane person is the total cause of this? Your saying Inkman and her exchange emails? He got emails from several people. Did he get one from Diane? Inkman are you in Diane's email list? Inkman you also got one from me, and you know my computer is not only locked down but you know its not sending spam. Clearly spoofed email. So is my email in Dianes email list too? I don't recall ever talking to this Diane person. Anyway I don't think you understand that probably everyone here every day receives a spoofed email from a computer (not even a real person most of the time), and its in attempts to get them to either get a virus, or go to a site, or to get more mail addresses to rise and repeat.
Kudos to inkbrigade, maybe some people will read up on this, reposting for you:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing[/url] ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing[/url])
I'm in Corporate IT and have been for years.. I know all about phishing and spoofing.....and a lot more.
You seem to be the expert on the matter, so I'll bow to your knowledge.
But mostly because I don't have any interest in pissing contests.
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FRIENDLY SCREEN PRINTERS!!!!!!!!!!
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Does anyone know what the questionable link in the message was ?
I got one (from Gerry).. but it was picked up as SPAM by my filter & of course I deleted it.
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It was a link to some Canadian pharmaceutical online order place for like viagra
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It was a link to some Canadian pharmaceutical online order place for like viagra
Ahhh.. thanks Gerry.