I had noticed that David Pontee was a BT customer - I will try and find a way of reporting this to BT. thank you Gordon I'm too scared to click on the link you sent, even though I know you wouldn't send something unsafe deliberately. Where will that link take me? Marged 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming 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 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