[governance] Request

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Just his account.  I did see spam from yet another compromised account on another ISP also emitting "rony" spam .. so I guess our colleague has an extra large address book and the scammer is spreading the load around to avoid tripping spam filters too much.

You might not get much mail from AOL servers, and they have a small fraction of the huge number of users they had a few years back, but that still leaves them with millions of users on their systems.

--srs (iPad)

On 13-Feb-2013, at 18:18, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Curiously, my antispam has been sistematically rejecting msgs from Rony. Maybe the server he uses is compromised, not only his account.
> 
> BTW, I never get any msg from AOL servers, except for Rony's.
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> On 02/13/2013 10:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> Rebecca MacKinnon [13/02/13 07:19 -0500]:
>>> Obviously his account has been hacked.
>> 
>> Yes. This is a typical nigerian scam - and one that's reasonably recent.
>> Not more than 4..5 years old at any rate.
>> 
>> Quite targeted in that the spammer reads through old email to invent a
>> plausible excuse.
>> 
>> A friend's uncle is a doctor who goes to Africa a lot and had this happen
>> to him, and the email went out with enough plausible looking details - a
>> conference in nigeria that he HAD attended earlier, for example - according
>> to the scam, he was in nigeria at that moment, had been mugged and needed
>> his friends to wire some money over.
>> 
>> And here, its signed like Rony signs his email ..
>> 

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