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To: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@mgaguru.com>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] (no subject)
From: Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:53:54 -0700
All that the list checks is that the reported "sender" matches a name
on the list. The email appears to have originated in Serbia, but was
sent via Hotmail. I suspect that  Rick Albin has had his Hotmail
login/password stolen, probably by a virus or worm.

Simon

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Barney Gaylord <barneymg@mgaguru.com>
wrote:
> The linked URL transferes to <drugstorexfitness dot net>
> Threat name: Exploit Pharmacy Spam Site.
> The page has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social
> engineering web site.
>
> Since access to this list is by subscription, it should be possible to ban
> the "list member" who sent it.  Since membership is granted automatically
to
> anyone who appplies, this does not prevent them from entering again under a
> different identity.  It's a tough situation to monitor.
>
>
> At 03:05 PM 5/30/2011 +0200, Bert Palte wrote:
>>
>> ....
>> My virus scanner says there is something quite wrong with this message, or
>> the link that is included.
>>
>> Any chance the distribution might have been prevented?
>> ....
>
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