From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #146 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Thursday, May 26 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 146 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: spam from smoe [Mark-Leon Thorne ] Re: spam from smoe [Lieve Reckers ] RE: james blake case of you [Susan Tierney McNamara ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:36:03 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: spam from smoe Yes, they are coming in the digest too. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 11:50:55 +0100 (BST) From: Lieve Reckers Subject: Re: spam from smoe [If anyone wants to skip the details of this message and go straight to the subject of these spam messages with pharmacy links, you can go straight to the very end of my message where I get to the subject!] - ----- Unfortunately, Terra, it is not always that easy. As you know, I fell victim big time to having my yahoo email address highjacked by a Nigerian gang. I had never divulged my password to anyone, it was quite a safe password (nothing obvious) and I do have anti-spyware/malware protection. I won't go into details now, but I just wanted to say: if anyone finds him or herself in the same situation (heaven forbid, but it could happen) then feel free to contact me and I will give you full details of how to deal with it as best as possible. I already posted a more detailed email about it, but things still went further afterwards: I found that the alternative address they had set up (from which they were sending messages and to which my incoming messages were diverted for a while) was actually part of my own account, so they could re-enter and lock me out again! The yahoo helpdesk did not seem to know about this ploy and so it is not part of their advice when you contact them with the problem, I had to find it all out for myself and it took several days before I had got rid of the invaders properly. Even then they tried a few more times to get back in (and I could see from the recent log-in activity how this was done from Nigeria!) but I managed to keep them out. So in addition to the advice I gave before, quickly these further points: - - make sure you have set up an alternative email address that is stored in your yahoo account details (I suppose the same with hotmail etc) - it can become invaluable to communicate with yahoo when you have been locked out of your own account; - - do check if there is no alternative address set up that you are not aware of, it could be the one that is sending out the spam messages such as these "Canadian pharmacy" messages we have all been receiving. This is not such a pervasive scam as the one I fell victim to, but it is still annoying. I don't know how that particular one works, but if you are one of the people whose email address is apparently sending out this stuff, I would suggest you check your alternative address to make sure there is not one that looks a lot like your own, but is in fact one set up by a spamming gang, from which they send their junk. If you find such address, the message is of course: delete and reset all your security details urgently! Fingers crossed, Lieve in London ________________________________ From: T Peckham To: Mark ; JMDL Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 5:35 Subject: Re: spam from smoe Yep, me too. This is why (re recent discussions on the NJC list) there are developers/code writers who offer their anti-spyware/anti-malware programs for FREE so everyone can protect their PCs. If everyone installed and ran these programs regularly, the spammers would soon find themselves just about starved out, and they'd have to find other ways to scam people. It's really NOT that difficult a problem to deal with--it just takes learning a little and paying attention. Terra On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Mark wrote: > Is anyone else receiving spam-like emails via smoe with suspicious looking > links in the text? > > I have been getting them (1 or 2) on an almost daily basis of late. > > I'm intentionally leaving the njc tag off of this email because I want > everyone to see it. I'm also cc'ing our list administrator (Hi Les) as I'm > a bit concerned about this. > > Mark in Seattle - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:03:18 -0400 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: james blake case of you Having only heard this version of A Case of You last time it was posted I was, OK, it's nice, but it wasn't enough for me to pursue James Blake beyond that. But right now I am listening to his youtube mix (17 songs) and I am VERY IMPRESSED with his electronica stuff. VERY INTERESTING ... Thanks to the jonilist for another great find. Sue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Mags Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:00 PM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: james blake case of you Just found James Blake's version of Case of You... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6bd4G-Aig gotta love that youtube Mags ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #146 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe