Hi Gordon that is why we all need to be vigilant and not open up something without an explanation and that looks genuine. I expect these lists are easy targets. :( Pam "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a good looking and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, shouting - Wow! What a ride!" -----Original Message----- From: eng-merseyside-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-merseyside-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Evans Sent: 27 July 2010 2:54 PM To: eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] (no subject) Hi Marged It's not just this list which is affected, as can be seen here :- http://url.ie/6ycl Worryingly for you and I, it would seem that people with btinternet as their isp are more prone to this type of hacking than most! Best regards Gordon From: "Marged" <marged36@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] (no subject) >Thank you for this Angelika - I got three of them and wrote to David >Pontee about them but I didn't realise they had gone to the list (don't >know why I didn't realise!) You are right - his account has been >hacked. >Marged > >This looks suspiciously like someone's webmail account got hacked (I >see this sort of thing all the time on the mailing lists that I moderate). >Whatever you do, folks... do NOT click on the links in any of the three >emails that were posted from David Pontee's address (from IP addresses >in Moldova, Poland and Croatia respectively, BTW). They are likely to >take you to web sites that instal key loggers on your machine, and then >you will be the next people to get hacked. (I have obscured the URL in >this email) Angelika ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Pam Talking of mail problems, wondered if you'd received the following e-mail from me, which I sent privately to you and Von on 3rd July? :- 'Not sure if you've got this one, which I managed to sight in the Liverpool RO on Thursday, just days before it closes for a two-year make-over :- Marriage 1 July 1850 Liverpool St Nicholas Thomas GILMER, full age, bachelor, plasterer, Ray Street, father William GILMER, mariner, and Mary HIGHTON, minor, spinster, Ray Street, father Henry HIGHTON, porter. Witnesses were Samuel SHERLOCK and Martha Jane CLARK. Mary believed to be a daughter of Elizabeth SHERLOCK (b1796 Caldy), so your first cousin 4 times removed?' Regards Gordon From: "Pam Craven" <pamcraven@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] (no subject) >Hi Gordon that is why we all need to be vigilant and not open up something >without an explanation and that looks genuine. I expect these lists are >easy >targets. :( >Pam