<div dir="ltr">this email was just found in my spam folder</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Bradford C. Vokey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@fsi.ca" target="_blank">brad@fsi.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Trevor Cordes (and myself) use vendor specific email addresses when
we sign up for services (it's easy when you control your own
domain).<br>
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Manitoba Hydro sends me email to '<a href="mailto:manitobahydro@yourowndomain.com" target="_blank">manitobahydro@yourowndomain.com</a>'<br>
Shaw send me email to '<a href="mailto:shaw@yourowndomain.com" target="_blank">shaw@yourowndomain.com</a>'<br>
...etc...<br>
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For several months now, both Trevor and myself have noticed spammers
using our Manitoba Hydro vendor specific email addresses.<br>
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So how (and when) did Manitoba Hydro get their email accounts list
hacked?<br>
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If so, what else got hacked? Our per-authorized Debit information?!?<br>
<br>
If not, then did they actually sell their email accounts lists to
spam lists?<br>
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I can see spammers sending generic *names* to various domains (ie.
<a href="mailto:trevor@yourowndomain.com" target="_blank">trevor@yourowndomain.com</a> or <a href="mailto:brad@yourowndomain.com" target="_blank">brad@yourowndomain.com</a>) but I can not
see spammers sending 'manitobahydro' to various domains without some
per-initializing from somewhere.<br>
<br>
Just my rant for the week/day/hour...<br>
<br>
...P.S. If anyone wants to meet some desperate Russian chick feel
free to believe in the spam...<br>
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Bradford C. Vokey<br>
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Treasurer<br>
Manitoba Unix User Group<br>
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<td>Allow me to introduce ... to you.</td>
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<td>Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:14:40 +0300</td>
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<pre>Greetings! How's it going? I found out your email in the agency of
acquaintances. They also told me you are not married and you wish to meet
a sweetheart. I decided to try to email you and get to know you better. I
will tell you some information about myself. I am 28 years old. No kids.
I would like to meet a sane and responsible person. I do not need to play
any online games, I would like to have serious relationship only. If you
are interested to know more about my life, please tell me and I will be
happy to tell you more info about myself and I will also send you photos!
My private email: <a href="mailto:lina-fo@rambler.ru" target="_blank">lina-fo@rambler.ru</a>
Elena
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