Re: A Note on Spamming/Scamming and PipingDesign

From: <Gang>
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 01:29:00 EDT

Paul,
Absolutely, there was no intension from my side to INFECT the noble service provided by the "Piping Design". I use my office server for accessing the site. The office has a very well established FIRE WALL system. Still, at the event of sighting a suspected SPAM, I make it a point to DELETE it then and there, without opening it. I really do not know how such a volume of rubbish is getting transmitted in the mail. Somebody who knows more about the matter of handling the software may suggest rectifying methods. Opinions are welcome.
In case it happens again, Paul, please notify me; I shall unsubscribe from the CLUB and save the august technical forum.
With warm regards and best wishes to all pipers, C. V. Gangadharan.
--- Paul Bowers <pbowers@pipingdesign.com> wrote:
> Recent attempts have been to try to to use valid
> PipingDesign members'
> usernames to force attachments (likely SPAMMER
> trojans) onto other
> listmembers' computers. Fortunately, attachments are
> auto-stripped for
> messages to the PipingDesign list. Another
> recently-discovered fraud
> attempt was that a subscribed member of PipingDesign
> apparently
> subscribed us to another dubious list, which was
> causing many bounced
> messages back to me.
>
> Message contents such as "Here is the file" and
> "Your document is
> attached" (without additional info) are common
> scammer tactics to get
> you to open a file which will infect your computer
> and turn it into a
> "zombie". Or worse. Here's a recent mainstream media
> CNN online article
> about SPAM zombies:
>
>

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/spam.zombies.ap/">http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/spam.zombies.ap/</a>
>
> These assholes (pardon my English) are rapidly
> turning email into a
> useless communication medium, and maybe the
> operators of the world's
> state-owned stale mail services are behind the
> exploding SPAM problem.
> Sorry, got carried away there with the tinfoil hat
> thing.
>
> gguerra_geci@terra.com.mx and <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=_f75Ev7yIKn3S9tYVENbtBeCdjhxDTFIXjglhiQLK2wwWMuAkG5aYexvKWEzK5unvsm-79uEMOP4">cvg_gang@yahoo.com</a>
> seem to be respected
> contributors, I suggest that these people run
> anti-spyware, a firewall
> and anti-virus software on their machines.
>
> Paul
>
>
> From gguerra_geci@terra.com.mx Wed Apr 14 00:24:00
> 2004
> Return-Path: <gguerra_geci@terra.com.mx>
> X-Sender: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=o4qoijIkE-pUpBTTDkMkl7d8JSk9I7NJUieYOiXjXHFOtoMPWwEGaznMabdHktAfFb-SC7p_kx_VjPXeZ6WNI8jxhJg">gguerra_geci@terra.com.mx</a>
> X-Apparently-To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=qLUT5mpjWAMvJFn-JvD5NN7qr-RNzx-_ObIUEbb6Y_ZViKCW34ijBrqfNUZ4U9Emx9oMZIgHPmgwXuXKf9RZXdRhOQ">pipingdesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
> Received: (qmail 21394 invoked from network); 14 Apr
> 2004 07:23:59 -0000
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> by m16.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2004
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> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:13:57 -0700
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> From: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=o4qoijIkE-pUpBTTDkMkl7d8JSk9I7NJUieYOiXjXHFOtoMPWwEGaznMabdHktAfFb-SC7p_kx_VjPXeZ6WNI8jxhJg">gguerra_geci@terra.com.mx</a>
> Subject: Re: Re: Message
> X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=169972715
> X-Yahoo-Profile: gguerrat
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Here is the file.
>
>
> ==========================================
>
>
> From cvg_gang@yahoo.com Tue Apr 13 22:02:49 2004
> Return-Path: <cvg_gang@yahoo.com>
> X-Sender: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=_f75Ev7yIKn3S9tYVENbtBeCdjhxDTFIXjglhiQLK2wwWMuAkG5aYexvKWEzK5unvsm-79uEMOP4">cvg_gang@yahoo.com</a>
> X-Apparently-To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=qLUT5mpjWAMvJFn-JvD5NN7qr-RNzx-_ObIUEbb6Y_ZViKCW34ijBrqfNUZ4U9Emx9oMZIgHPmgwXuXKf9RZXdRhOQ">pipingdesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
> Received: (qmail 52579 invoked from network); 14 Apr
> 2004 05:02:48 -0000
> Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216)
> by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2004
> 05:02:48 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO yahoogroups.com)
> (202.142.77.187)
> by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2004
> 05:02:13 -0000
> To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=qLUT5mpjWAMvJFn-JvD5NN7qr-RNzx-_ObIUEbb6Y_ZViKCW34ijBrqfNUZ4U9Emx9oMZIgHPmgwXuXKf9RZXdRhOQ">pipingdesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:53:03 -0700
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 202.142.77.187
> From: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=_f75Ev7yIKn3S9tYVENbtBeCdjhxDTFIXjglhiQLK2wwWMuAkG5aYexvKWEzK5unvsm-79uEMOP4">cvg_gang@yahoo.com</a>
> Subject: Re: Here
> X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=111989459
> X-Yahoo-Profile: cvg_gang
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Your document is attached.
>
>
>

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