Re: spamming of ML addresses

[<pl...@pi...>]

On 10/06/17 15:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 10 June 2017 at 16:01, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:02:12 +0100
>> pl...@pi... wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM
>>> from the address I use for this ML. I am going to have to shut down
>>> the account.
>>>
>>> This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this
>>> as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by
>>> spammers.
>>>
>>> Is there  a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way?
>>>
>>> Are others having this problem?
>>
>> No, I haven't (fortunately!). Sorry to hear.
> 
> I'm getting sufficient spam from all over the place (it ends in
> spambox anyway), so generally I wouldn't be able to tell where exactly
> the spam originates. (I would need a separate email address for each
> mailing list for that.)

Which is exactly what I do ;)

That is how I know the recent flurry is coming from the contact I put on 
this ML.

BTW they come in volleys of three identical emails each from different 
bogus addresses.

I also got the renew subscription msg , which I also thought looked 
rather phishy, so I did not do anything about it.  This prompted me to 
consider killing this address and subscribing with a new one, but 
chances are the same thing will happen.

Thanks for comments.

Peter.


> 
>> But the other day I got an email, apparently from
>> Sourceforge, to confirm that I want to be subscribed
>> to the two gnuplot email lists. I don't recall ever
>> receiving such an email before, but it looked legit,
>> and so I confirmed. Have others gotten similar emails?
> 
> Yes, I got that one as well.
> 
> The list of mailing lists looks OK. So either they have so many
> spammers subscribed on various lists that they had to do this to get
> rid of spammers. Or some spammers got hold of their complete database
> and are now sending emails themselves :) I guess it's the first in
> this case, but it would be nice if they wrote this somewhere on the
> web page as it looks suspicious in any case. Usually such emails are
> phishing attacks, I don't remember getting a similar legitimate email
> like that one in the past.
> 
> Mojca
> 
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