Spam is not a normal topic for any of the Mailing Lists however there
seems to be a huge amoung showing up in many of the Lists lately as
addresses are being harvested left and right from Subscriber's address
books. I Administrate some Mailing Lists including this one. Please let
me send a few words about what is getting through to hundreds of Lists
lately. I am sending this to the Lists I have as so
much has been getting through in the past 2-3 days however none has yet
reached here. We are a small List, that's probably why we haven't yet
been hit.
Any eMail you get from Message Boards or Mailing Lists as well as
personal mail that has a format described below is HIGHLY LIKELY to be
infected. Delete it without clicking anything or your address book will
probably be next. LOOK at the list of addresses its being sent to. Its
haphazard and you are one of a dozen or more and you don't know any of
the other addresses. There may be nothing in the Subject line. There is
very little heading to explain what it is and I've never yet been
addressed by my name, only by my address. Look at the WORDS it
contains squished together in the URL they've sent. They'll be very
suspect. None of this is of any use to Genealogists. Do not write
back to the Sender unless you know them, their address book has been
harvested and their computer is at risk, they'll be busy getting a new
eMail address and clearing their machine of any other bugs it has pickec up.
Its advised to be OVERLY cautious with ANY eMail that looks so different
and is not as you'd expect. Delete it. And DO NOT FORWARD IT and DO
NOT RESEND BACK to any of the Lists. If you feel you must forward it,
snip something from the URL of the spam address, thus making it
incomplete and useless, thats been done below as an example, its the
only way to safely forward/copy/ask about this kind of junk.
Sample spam URL made ineffective.....
http://big42inchlcdtvdeal.com/[snipped]
Best is to DELETE anything that looks remotely like an ad.....if its
made you even THINK of clikking on it to see what it is.....its spam and
may invade your computer, that's what its supposed to do ! Please send
any questions about spam/ads/bugs to me. Meg Greenwood / Admin for this
and a few other Lists scotquester(a)bartnet.net