Sparkymart Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Think this might be a issue for @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO I've received a couple of emails which are headed Wscc chairman and wscc membership secretary but definitely not from the club see screenshot Nothing to serious I hope cheers Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Yes - just spam - ignore it. Unfortunately as the @wscc email addresses are "out there" they get harvested and spammers use them to "spoof" the "from" address. As you can see your AV picked it up as it should have done. EDIT - note the email account has NOT been "hacked" it's just been spoofed which is common as sh... and impossible to stop, so all you can do is ignore it and allow your AV to bin it automatically on your behalf. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkymart Posted September 8, 2017 Author Share Posted September 8, 2017 31 minutes ago, Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO said: Yes - just spam - ignore it. Unfortunately as the @wscc email addresses are "out there" they get harvested and spammers use them to "spoof" the "from" address. As you can see your AV picked it up as it should have done. EDIT - note the email account has NOT been "hacked" it's just been spoofed which is common as sh... and impossible to stop, so all you can do is ignore it and allow your AV to bin it automatically on your behalf. Cheers Chris just thought I'd better let you know just in case Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, Martin Rice (Sparkymart) - Cornwall AO said: Cheers Chris just thought I'd better let you know just in case Absolutely! Always good to point these things out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinten Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Get them too, but fortunately Google marks them correctly as spam. Nothing you can do about it unfortunately! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 I've had a couple too , just deleted them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark (smokey mow) Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 4 hours ago, Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO said: Yes - just spam - ignore it. Unfortunately as the @wscc email addresses are "out there" they get harvested and spammers use them to "spoof" the "from" address. @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO I had two this morning from Mr Chairman and both we're address to the bulk AO@ email address which unlike the area email addresses I didn't think was published on the website or forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 34 minutes ago, Mark (smokey mow) - Joint Essex AO said: @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO I had two this morning from Mr Chairman and both we're address to the bulk AO@ email address which unlike the area email addresses I didn't think was published on the website or forum Maybe - but all it takes is for any "ao" to reply to a spam email sent out to a bunch of random @wscc addresses and then it gets recognised as a real one and bombarded. I never 'unsubscribe' to unknown emails for that very reason, as a reply indicates your existence. And email itself is so unbelievably insecure, it might be a scrape of one of the mail provider's servers etc. Basically, never, ever, ever send anything remotely confidential via email - ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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