George Thank you for a very informative explanation. George F. Nagle wrote: > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > >