I've had them from both Devon and Channel Islands lists. Clearly this is an attack as the spams come from a variety of alleged services, and obviously just need to be deleted untouched. But this is the first time I've seen spams clearly masquerading as from the list. Chris Graves OPC Sidbury & Salcombe Regis OPC Clyst Honiton, Clyst Hydon and Whimple Sent from my iPad > On 14 Aug 2016, at 19:51, Bill Full <[email protected]> wrote: > > Terry, > I found 30 this morning in my Spam bucket in California - all from Dev List. > So international borders make no difference! Yahoo mail servers seem to be > filtering them fairly well, however. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of edbar > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 6:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on > > Hi > This morning I had 21 of these spam messages, and oh yes, they are coming > via rootsweb. > 3 from Warwickshire, 10 from Devon, 6 from Boston-States and 2 from > Nfld-Lab. > Of the 21 above 15 had been caught and sent to my "Junk folder" and 6 were > in my in-basket. > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Rogers > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 3:25 AM > To: Devon ML > Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:12:30 +0100 > Terry Leaman <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I had 21 > Hello Terry, > >> I think it very unlikely that the messages are coming through Rootsweb, > > Ah, but they *are* coming via RW. Message headers show this to be so. > Ancestry admit they have issues and worryingly, admins are unable to do > anything about because Ancestry have turned of moderation. > > Further, it's no coincidence that as soon as the RootsWeb lists came back > up, my daily spam message count went up from one or two to thirty to forty. > >> If they were everyone would get them. More likely that their addresses > > No. That would depend on their spam filtering. Some ISPs are better at it > than others. > >> have been hacked and used. I, as one of the admins, am not seeing any >> scam messages coming from the Devon list. > > Then you're not looking in the right place. Devon is one of the worst > affected lists I'm on. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > I'm spending all my money and it's going up my nose Teenage Depression - > Eddie & The Hot Rods > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be > found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be > found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I get hit by this FedEx Standard Overnight spam e-mail, about one day from a variety of lists. Problem is I am expecting a FedEx package and it hasn't arrived yet. It was due in yesterday. Regards, Lance -----Original Message----- From: chris graves Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on I've had them from both Devon and Channel Islands lists. Clearly this is an attack as the spams come from a variety of alleged services, and obviously just need to be deleted untouched. But this is the first time I've seen spams clearly masquerading as from the list. Chris Graves OPC Sidbury & Salcombe Regis OPC Clyst Honiton, Clyst Hydon and Whimple Sent from my iPad > On 14 Aug 2016, at 19:51, Bill Full <[email protected]> wrote: > > Terry, > I found 30 this morning in my Spam bucket in California - all from Dev > List. > So international borders make no difference! Yahoo mail servers seem to be > filtering them fairly well, however. > > Bill > > > -----Original Message----- > From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of edbar > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 6:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on > > Hi > This morning I had 21 of these spam messages, and oh yes, they are coming > via rootsweb. > 3 from Warwickshire, 10 from Devon, 6 from Boston-States and 2 from > Nfld-Lab. > Of the 21 above 15 had been caught and sent to my "Junk folder" and 6 were > in my in-basket. > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Rogers > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 3:25 AM > To: Devon ML > Subject: Re: [DEV] What's going on > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:12:30 +0100 > Terry Leaman <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I had 21 > Hello Terry, > >> I think it very unlikely that the messages are coming through Rootsweb, > > Ah, but they *are* coming via RW. Message headers show this to be so. > Ancestry admit they have issues and worryingly, admins are unable to do > anything about because Ancestry have turned of moderation. > > Further, it's no coincidence that as soon as the RootsWeb lists came back > up, my daily spam message count went up from one or two to thirty to > forty. > >> If they were everyone would get them. More likely that their addresses > > No. That would depend on their spam filtering. Some ISPs are better at > it > than others. > >> have been hacked and used. I, as one of the admins, am not seeing any >> scam messages coming from the Devon list. > > Then you're not looking in the right place. Devon is one of the worst > affected lists I'm on. > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > I'm spending all my money and it's going up my nose Teenage Depression - > Eddie & The Hot Rods > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be > found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be > found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus