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 > ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3029 - Release Date: 07/26/10 07:36:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3030 - Release Date: 07/26/10 19:34:00

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