* Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> [02-12-13 18:52]: [...]
Some people's email SW strips out email addresses and only puts the name in the content section so when mail-archive services pick up the list, email addressses don't end up as feed for phishing and spamming stuff...
Then there are people who don't use such email SW. Using the below phish/spam I got, I'd say, at least these people ought to think about how their email SW is configured to include someone's name on reply:
Patrick, Andrey, Greg, and Cristian among others that aren't as clearly attributed (guess they got lucky!). But a friendly reminder about internet email hygiene practices, I thought, might be useful.
jfyi, it is no harder to strip email addresses from the body of msgs as from the header.... mox nix [...]
-------- Original Message -------- Received by 'my_email_infrastructure...' Received from lexmailer4.data.lt (lexmailer4.data.lt [31.193.193.40]) Received from from qmail-test.data.lt (qmail-test.data.lt [31.193.193.201]) Subject: 36 unread messages wait for you in Qmail Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:02:58 -0000 From: no-reply@qwekee.com Reply-To: no-reply@qwekee.com To: suse＠tlnx．org
Hello suse＠tlnx．org,
We've noticed that it's been a week since you read your Qmail messages. Your colleagues might be confused and wait for your answers
Colleagues whose messages wait unread: [...]
This is a different/clever attempt to data mine via social engineering. I have seen seven of these/similar posts in the last few weeks. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org