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Offline Mike Haverly

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Phony email
« on: February 16, 2012, 12:10:29 PM »
My apologies to anyone who may have gotten any weird email associated with me.  I hope I have the problem resolved.
Mike

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Re: Phony email
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2012, 09:29:07 AM »
Mike, nothing from you, but one from a Fireball member.  By mistake i opened the mail and it was an ad for working from home. 
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Offline Dennis Vander Kuur

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Re: Phony email
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 11:20:10 AM »
I got one yesterday morning from John Paris' AOL e-mail address with "vita.amadeo" in the subject box. I also mistakenly opened it and it was spam.
I sent John an email message about it and suggested he change his AOL password (what I had to do twice in the last year when my yahoo e-mail account had been compromised). I also requested that he send me an email confirming he got my message. I have not yet heard from him.
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Offline W.D. Roland

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Re: Phony email
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2012, 03:09:38 PM »
My work from home email came from the wife's personal email. She did not send it.
Her personal Email received it from her work email(XXX.LaMason.com) that she did not send.

I have suggested they look at this close as it indicates to me a major hack of their system to gain access
to that kind of info and control. ???
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Offline Don Curry AMA 267060

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Re: Phony email
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2012, 07:05:16 PM »
I some how got my e-mail contact list hijacked and every time that I sent an e-mail it created another batch of bogus forewarded spam. I had to open a new e-mail account with a new password. Hopefully that will end the problem. Sorry Joe it was probably me.

Don

Offline Steve Helmick

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Re: Phony email
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2012, 07:47:16 PM »
I received the email about which Mike posted. No harm done. They usually are spam, but some are virus carrying links. The lack of any, or a sensible, subject line is the tipoff. I usually send an email about the receipt of such, but did not in this case.  :-\  Steve
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