[ale] OT: SPAM is winning

[Scott Castaline]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
> 
>> One of the ones that I saved has the same exact content as one that I 
>> already deleted that had a more legit subject line and from someone that 
>> I knew, who would send me something along the lines of the subject. It 
>> actually is a scanned in image of a note advertising one of those "No 
>> prescription needed for prescription drugs such as Vicodin, Viagra, and 
>> a number of others.
> 
> Generally, when it appears to come from someone you know, either they 
> are infected with a virus that is using their address book, or they are 
> in an address book of a machine that is infected.
> 
> Note, spammers also will pull groups of emails from public lists like 
> ALE and send emails to the group from one of the email addresses in the 
> group.
> 
Funny you should mention that. Just received one from one of my other 
mail lists, just a couple of hours ago.