[nfbwatlk] message might be spam?

Les Fitzpatrick lesfitz at comcast.net
Sat Oct 30 22:55:04 UTC 2010


I sure wouldn't.  

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:15 PM
To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] message might be spam?

Les:

Really now ... is anyone on here gonna admit that he needs viagra? (smirk)

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Fitzpatrick" <lesfitz at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List'" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] message might be spam?


>I did and it was or had to do with a canadian pharmacy wanting to sell me
> Viagra which I definitely don't need.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:34 PM
> To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] message might be spam?
>
> 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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