Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 August 2008 01:58:19 am the "real" Alexey Eremenko fired
up the etch a sketch and drew the following:
> Hi All,
>
> openSUSErs !
> Help us - someone is hijacking email account, and we have no idea
> how-to protect ourselves !
>
> Someone is sending spam emails using account of the members of this
> mailing list. (namely someone hijacked Ashish's email account).
>
> How to deal with this and how this can happen ?

There are only a few ways. First, use a spamtrap email. Bots around
the world harvest your email and can spoof much of your email address.
Heck, I can even fire up Konqueror and send and email using the smtp
of my neighbor's isp if I wanted to.

The best thing to do is check the headers.  Alexy, you'll see on the
openSUSE email list that this is supposedly coming  from you. However,
it isn't. This is Kai, using my email with an alternate identity. If
you look at the headers it should be from cotse.net, not your email
which will have an smtp of wr-out-0506.google.com.

Never fear, it just makes it more fun to spot the trolls on the list.

:)  (kai, impersonating Alexey's email...)

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