[gui-talk] Alert to all AOL users

[Mike Freeman]

Resetting passwords etc. won't make any difference as spoofers get the email addresses from public venues such as list archives.  If you look at the Internet headers you'll find they're spoofed and often don't even come from AOL.

Mike Freeman
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On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:05, Kenlawrence124 at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Hi Listers sending to all related lists there is someone out there using  
> AOL addresses sending out a message that says second notice your federal tax  
> payment has been rejected.  I have gotten over 70 or 80 or more of the  
> bounce back messages and as I type this I hear clicks saying more have come  
> in.  This is the second time in recent months this crap has happened.   The 
> way the program goes out is the sender adds a name to the send too field to  
> get around the automatic lokcout by AOL When AOL detects electronicly 
> generated  messages trying to send out many at once the AOL system trips a security 
> measure  that scrambles all user names on an account and all passwords.  
> This sender  is getting around that by adding a proper name first and last 
> something like  John Dough _ _kenlawrence124 at aol.com_ 
> (mailto:kenlawrence124 at aol.com)   and when these messages bounce I get them.  It is obvious Phishing 
> so if  you are an AOL user, you might reset your password and security 
> question.   Thanks, Ken.
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