forum mailboxes raided

Just a heads up to the members here…

Someone has managed to hack into quite a few mailboxes here…I have received lots of junk and spam, offer to sell Viagra, join porn clubs, refinance my home, that type of stuff, and the senders are all folks from the Trains forum

Example is the one that prompted me to post this…

I doubt Ed Benton is really selling Viagra at less than half the pharmacy rate.

In fact, I doubt he sells it at all, but I have received 2 such emails from his yahoo account with an hour of each other.

On the other hand, if he is selling it, and at the prices listed in the email, he should be pretty flush with cash by tomorrow!..[;)]

And I doubt Mookie wants to really help me re-finance my house and my car…she just wants the car!

So folks here may take a minute or two and check the security of their email accounts, and the Kalmbach folks might want to do a quick check on the new members who signed up today or yesterday, as odds are one of them has hacked into the Trains server and copied the mailboxes of members.

I haven’t recieved any.

Neither have I received any. Suggest you review your settings on your e-mail account (s) Ed.

Yahoo and GMail have efficient SPAM settings but some ISP’s own mail accounts require personal settings to be done.

Found out today from my ISP that my Account was Hacked they have tracked the hack to Mexico and they thru a block on traffic from there.

They don’t have to actually hack your account - there are ways to spoof your address from their own server. After all, if you get an email from someone you know, you’ll open it, right?

psst - hope you can re-finance on the quarter I can send you…

And I have always wanted your cars! [:-,]

Wow…didn’t know we were getting mixed up with hackers…Don’t believe I’ve seen it yet, but now can be on the lookout for it, and perhaps better undersand if I see any.

(sigh) if it’s not one disfunction it’s another.

Dave Nelson

’ Not interested in refinance, but what are your rates on a new house purchase?[8-|]

Depends on if you are buying it for you or me…[:-,]

Talk about your lucky coincidense! We’re buying a house for us, AND we have a house to sell for YOU![:P]

Make me an offer I can’t refuse!

Well, buying for you will involve something I keep hearing - 99%

And buying for me will involve seller moving house intact to Lincoln. Then seller buying property that is acceptable to me put it on and finance rate for me would be 1%.

Does it have a penthouse that would overlook the Platte River?

(little too much tv overload right now)

How did you know it had a finished third floor? [:O]

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I haven’t received any of it.

Murray; thank you for posting the links.

Jim

My pleasure Jim…