This morning I received an e-mail from Dauphin Co Genealogy Message Center (or something like that) and maley.net. However the body of the message was one of those promises of money from some African country. What gives? Anyone else get this? Jim in VT ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Not yet, thank goodness. WolfordMigration@aol.com wrote: > This morning I received an e-mail from Dauphin Co Genealogy Message Center > (or something like that) and maley.net. However the body of the message was one > of those promises of money from some African country. What gives? Anyone > else get this? > > Jim in VT > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADAUPHI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

You received what is known as a "spoofed" email. The spammer simply used the email return address of a known site. The website was probably never hacked or compromised in any way. It's the same thing as someone putting a false return address on an envelope in the postal mail, and just as easy to do. Almost everyone has received email that purports to be from a local bank, or ebay, or from Microsoft. Of course its not. I regularly receive all sorts of email offers and junk that appear to be from my own site, when I know they did not originate there (you can tell by checking the email properties and tracing the route--it usually originates in Europe or Asia). That's why everyone needs to make sure their virus protection is up to date and have a good working firewall installed, which will catch 99% of that stuff and route it into your junk mail folder. Always on guard. George F. Nagle' Afrolumens Project Editor www.afrolumens.org -----Original Message----- From: padauphi-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padauphi-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of WolfordMigration@aol.com Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:11 PM To: padauphi@rootsweb.com Subject: [PADAUPHI] Web site Hacked? This morning I received an e-mail from Dauphin Co Genealogy Message Center (or something like that) and maley.net. However the body of the message was one of those promises of money from some African country. What gives? Anyone else get this? Jim in VT ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADAUPHI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Most likely, spammer used a computer, maybe a public library computer, where someone else had read things to do with Dauphin county genealogy, maybe their email, and your e-mail address was there. I've seen that happen. Then the spammer or the program the spammer wrote pretended to send spam from those addresses. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <WolfordMigration@aol.com> To: <padauphi@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 4:10 PM Subject: [PADAUPHI] Web site Hacked? > This morning I received an e-mail from Dauphin Co Genealogy Message Center > (or something like that) and maley.net. However the body of the message > was one > of those promises of money from some African country. What gives? Anyone > else get this? > > Jim in VT > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADAUPHI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.465 / Virus Database: 269.5.7/771 - Release Date: 4/21/2007 11:56 AM