[governance] Sad news?

[Rui Correia]

Norbert

And how do you know it was stolen? Have you spoken to the owner?

The owner's machine could just as well be infected with a programme that
automatically sends out mail to the list of contacts.

Cada coisa!

Rui

On 9 February 2010 21:10, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

> This mail was sent from the stolen account of the person whose name
> appears in the mail. It will get through all filters and participants'
> lists, because it is a correct senders address (which has been stolen).
>
> In the case a friend of mine suffered, they had (stupidly) given the
> account password in response to a mail which pretended to come from
> their ISP (in that case a fake Yahoo admin address).
>
> I asked: "Why did you send them their password?"
>
> "Well, they threatened that my account will be closed if I do not send it."
>
> I thought EVERYBODY knows that one should not send the password by mail,
> NEVER.
>
>
> Norbert Klein
>


Rui Correia
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