[nfbwatlk] message might be spam?

[Mike Freeman]

Humberto:

The message may be spam although this is uncertain.  I certainly didn't 
click on the link in the message.  But the message is ostensibly from 
Sherron Smith, President of the Clalom County chapter of the NFB of 
Washington and since it is -- or looks like -- a legitimate address of a 
list subscriber, there's no way the list software would filter it out. 
Ordinarily, when we see posts like this, the "from" address is "spoofed" by 
another computer masquerading as Sherron or whomever is having his/her 
address spoofed.  However, in this case, looking at the Internet headers, I 
get mixed results.  Looks sorta like the email was sent from somewhere in 
Europe causing Yahoo to relay it using Sherron's address.  Then again, the 
post was also addressed to me personally along with a few others, some of 
whom I know.  So Sherron's machine may have a bot on it.

Best thing we can do is to just wait, relax and see if any more posts whose 
nature we can't fathom come from her.  In any event, that's something for 
Daiv Andrews and I as list moderator to handle.

Mike Freeman, Moderator
NFB of Washington Talk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Humberto Avila" <hum4avila_71 at fastmail.fm>
To: <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:39 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] message might be spam?


>I don't know if everybody in this mailing list has gotten a message that 
>has
> no subject in the subject line, and is from some sender called
> "time2chat2you" or something @yahoo.com. It contains a link, and I don't
> know  , maybe that might be spam. The message contains the [nfbWaTlk] 
> prefix
> on the subject line, which is the prefix from the NFB of Washington 
> Mailing
> list. That is why I'm curious if you got the message. If so, how should we
> stop this?
>
> Sincerely,  Humberto
>
> P.S. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>
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