Re: Looks like Spam

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "rsbirdy" <rsbirdy@comcast.net>
> To: lindsey@hort.net, "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 4:06:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Looks like Spam
> 
> 
> I'm rsbirdy. Don't know what is going on...??? I didn't send
> anything...???
> Sandie
> 

Hi Sandie,

Contrary to what most people are saying, I don't believe your system has been
hacked (unless you're currently traveling or living in Madrid).  

Your email address was harvested from somewhere and used to send a forged email
(which is trivial to do).  Since this list allows listmembers to post, the
forged message went through.

It's been an issue for mailing lists for decades, and I'll tell you the same
thing I tell people at my day job:  Don't worry about it, and there's nothing
you can do about it.

However...  There is a chance that your contact list was stolen from your phone
by a rogue app, although it wasn't used to send the email.  I'd recommend going
through any apps that you may have installed on your S7 and removing unnecessary
ones.  I know someone who had this happen a couple of years ago -- they purchased
a reputable app, but then the company was purchased by someone in China that added some
bad code to steal contact lists.  When the app auto-updated on their phone the contact
list was harvested and members received forged messages later on.

Chris
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