My favorite ones are the recent emails telling me that our mail system admins (us) have “stopped using Internet Explorer 8 on our Exchange Outlook Web site and they must immediately confirm their login details or we will block their access to email”.

Apparently our boss outsourced our Exchange admin duties to some random person at an elementary school in North Carolina without telling us :-P

It’s an unending email war.

We’ve gotten a new bunch trying bayesian poisoning again in the email body; I haven’t seen it in a while. Good for making freeform spam poetry:

With first incoming,
or articles, so with intake,
and directly center internal,
then create lower,
but more this ports,
and so also other,
so cars instead, or prevents,
and so timed,
then volume list engines…

Dragging it back to official topics: XBoat Spam? Thing or not a thing?

Surely the kind of phishing stuff we get won’t work in the OTU on the XBoat routes since it’s hard to  hijack computer accounts through a jump route :-) but surely there are cons being run all the time.

Also in-system spamming and phishing I expect would be endemic. The moment you get functional comms I’m sure there will be 3I versions of the kind of nonsense we deal with daily.

> On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:53 AM, tmr0195@comcast.net wrote:
>
> Hello Bruce,
>
> No thank you they have been offering me the same deals as well as various banks I do not have accounts with letting me know they have been compromised.
>
> Tom Rux
>
> From: "Bruce Johnson" <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
> To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:49:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [TML] Ping
>
> If y’all are bored I can pass along the spams that get held for the list admin to deny or release  :-)
>
> Some folks in china want to sell us machine parts and there was that nice Nigerian lady who wanted desperately to give the list 1.2 million Dollars US. ($) 8-P
>
>
> > On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> >
> > This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (xxxxxx@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one. The original message follows:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Yeah, it has been a while, but it's not unprecedented.   :-(
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > On Thu, 11/17/16, John Geoffrey <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [TML] Ping
> > To: "Traveller Mailing List" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
> > Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:26 AM
> >
> > Last message I see is from the 12th.
> > That is oddly long ago for this list.
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