Re: [californiadisasters] OT, but important: domain registration scam

This has been happening with great frequency for at least the last year or
so. In fact, we've put up a file describing this issue.

I think hardly a week has gone by in the last 15 months in which I didn't
hear first-hand or second-hand of someone getting their email cracked. It's
rampant. Even one of our mods got hit.

But this domain registration thing is new, and these bozos are flat-out
asking you to send them money.

Bottom line:

Prevention: Trust nobody.

Have a strong password and guard it (and a different password for each thing
is good; if they get your email, you don't want them to also get your bank
account).

Don't believe anything you get in email, not even from a friend (at least
until you know it's really your friend writing).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kemasa" <egroupzz@kemasa.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] OT, but important: domain registration
scam

> On Tuesday 19 July 2011, Lin Kerns wrote:
> > Something new on the scam front: your account is inundated with
> > mailer-daemon responses to email you never sent, but stating in the
header
> > that the faux mail was undeliverable. Of course, if this kind of thing
> > wasn't presorted by my gmail account and shunted into the spam folder, I
> > might think otherwise.
>
> Forging email is common, but a friend somehow had his password stolen such
> that the email was actually being sent using his actual email address and
> email provider, so you need to be very careful and change your password as
> well.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> K.
>

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