In the past day or so I have had a handful of SPAM emails sent to the admin addresses of the lists I admin. This morning I deleted 30 . I rarely use these addresses. In fact for 2 of the quietest lists , I never have. So dunno where spammers are accessing these. Cant tag & delete as SPAM either so just a time waster ............... bye MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast Australia

On 7/2/2012 5:40 PM, MargM wrote: > > > In the past day or so I have had a handful of SPAM emails sent to > the admin addresses of the lists I admin. > This morning I deleted 30 . I rarely use these addresses. In > fact for 2 of the quietest lists , I never have. > So dunno where spammers are accessing these. > > Cant tag& delete as SPAM either so just a time waster Marg: If one of your subscribers has the admin address in their address book, and their e-mail gets compromised, that would do it. Regardless, you are right, it's a time waster although not a horrible one unless the volume gets ridiculous. Darrell

I've noticed an increase in spam being directed to my *-admin@rootsweb.com addresses in the past week or so. Gmail is rightly picking it all up as spam, and I delete it once I've looked through the spam folder for genuine mail (which doesn't happen often). Wendy Darrell A. Martin said the following on 3/07/2012 11:20 a.m.: > On 7/2/2012 5:40 PM, MargM wrote: >> >> In the past day or so I have had a handful of SPAM emails sent to >> the admin addresses of the lists I admin. >> This morning I deleted 30 . I rarely use these addresses. In >> fact for 2 of the quietest lists , I never have. >> So dunno where spammers are accessing these. >> >> Cant tag& delete as SPAM either so just a time waster > Marg: > > If one of your subscribers has the admin address in their address book, > and their e-mail gets compromised, that would do it. Regardless, you are > right, it's a time waster although not a horrible one unless the volume > gets ridiculous. > > Darrell

----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell A. Martin" <darrellm@sprynet.com> To: <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [LO] Pesky SPAMMERS > On 7/2/2012 5:40 PM, MargM wrote: >> >> >> In the past day or so I have had a handful of SPAM emails sent >> to >> the admin addresses of the lists I admin. >> This morning I deleted 30 . I rarely use these addresses. In >> fact for 2 of the quietest lists , I never have. >> So dunno where spammers are accessing these. >> >> Cant tag& delete as SPAM either so just a time waster > > Marg: > > If one of your subscribers has the admin address in their > address book, > and their e-mail gets compromised, that would do it. > Regardless, you are > right, it's a time waster although not a horrible one unless > the volume > gets ridiculous. > Hi Darrell Not possible for at least 2 of my very quiet lists . These emails are allegedly from 3 list admin address and sent to same 3 In part they read quote: We have an excellent opportunity for an apprentice applicant to join a rapidly expanding company. An at home Key Account Manager Position (Ref: 11599-581/2HR) is a great opportunity for stay at home parents or anyone who wants to work in the comfort of their own home. This is a genuine offer and not to be confused with scams! end quote Just who are they kidding ! Its now mid day local time and just had 6 more Been a list admin for a fair few years and dont recall SPAM from this angle before. Its just a complete time waster Also received 3 similar messages this morning posted to the lists message posting address which have got caught as unsubscibers . All part of a list admins life ! Bye MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast Australia

make a message filter for content send to trash. If message contains " Key Account Manager Position " send to trash - some mail clients word it different. But you can do this with most all clients. If you want good admin mail, use the content filter to folder those. I use several Authorization is requested Excessive or fatal bounces has been removed list admin messages [LO] listowners mail list sub request non-member subscribe unsubscribe uncaught all these and a couple more are content filter to folder and its all separated nicely. A glance tells me I have new messages in them. All other unfiltered mail end up in the inbox, most cases its all spam. People who run solely on the inbox with out filters are just adding to the work they wont have to do once you run filters. Gets rid of a lot of guess work. I rarely open the uncaught ones, some times they have live spam in them. If they are repeated to many times I check to see why, some times a member has something blocked. Its just as easy to filter spam out. No if rw would do same, we would have less spam too, subject line , most all spam has no RE: or they have a lot of ? marks. Dan M ----- Original Message ----- From: "MargM" <genknut@exemail.com.au> To: "Darrell A. Martin" <darrellm@sprynet.com>; <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [LO] Pesky SPAMMERS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darrell A. Martin" <darrellm@sprynet.com> > To: <listowners@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:20 AM > Subject: Re: [LO] Pesky SPAMMERS > > >> On 7/2/2012 5:40 PM, MargM wrote: >>> >>> >>> In the past day or so I have had a handful of SPAM emails sent >>> to >>> the admin addresses of the lists I admin. >>> This morning I deleted 30 . I rarely use these addresses. In >>> fact for 2 of the quietest lists , I never have. >>> So dunno where spammers are accessing these. >>> >>> Cant tag& delete as SPAM either so just a time waster >> >> Marg: >> >> If one of your subscribers has the admin address in their >> address book, >> and their e-mail gets compromised, that would do it. >> Regardless, you are >> right, it's a time waster although not a horrible one unless >> the volume >> gets ridiculous. >> > Hi Darrell > Not possible for at least 2 of my very quiet lists . These emails > are allegedly from 3 list admin address and sent to same 3 > > In part they read quote: > > We have an excellent opportunity for an apprentice applicant to > join a rapidly expanding company. > > An at home Key Account Manager Position (Ref: 11599-581/2HR) is a > great opportunity for stay at home parents or anyone who wants to > work in the comfort of their own home. > This is a genuine offer and not to be confused with scams! > > > end quote > > Just who are they kidding ! Its now mid day local time and just > had 6 more > > Been a list admin for a fair few years and dont recall SPAM from > this angle before. Its just a complete time waster > > Also received 3 similar messages this morning posted to the > lists message posting address which have got caught as > unsubscibers . > > All part of a list admins life ! > > Bye > > MargM > Beautiful NSW Central Coast > Australia > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message