[Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?

[Guerri Stevens]

I got a message within my Dixonary stuff with the title "the latest way
to make money". Sender is Helen Howard. I didn't open it.

--
Guerri

[Millie Morgan]

I received it too.

--
Millie



----- Original Message -----
From: "Guerri Stevens" <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com>
To: "Google Dixonary" <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 7:36 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?


>I got a message within my Dixonary stuff with the title "the latest way
> to make money". Sender is Helen Howard. I didn't open it.
>
> --
> Guerri
>

[Judy Madnick]

From: "Guerri Stevens" <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com>

<< I got a message within my Dixonary stuff with the title "the
<< latest way
<< to make money". Sender is Helen Howard. I didn't open it.

I'm assuming we all received it.

Judy

[Christopher Carson]

I believe that message slipped through the moderation process. I don’t know
about the other moderators, but I've been having intermittent problems with
the moderation process, where I'll mark the messages in the queue and then
click moderate, only to have some sort of crash occur and get the message
that 'the page could not be displayed'. That message was in the queue when
this happened so I can only assume that it got 'mis-clicked' and ended up
getting through.

CC

-----Original Message-----
From: Guerri Stevens
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 5:36 AM
To: Google Dixonary
Subject: [Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?

I got a message within my Dixonary stuff with the title "the latest way
to make money". Sender is Helen Howard. I didn't open it.

--
Guerri

[Tony Abell]

What disturbs me about that spam is that the (fake) "From" address is on the
domain of a mail server that I help maintain. It is the server to which
Dixonary mail is delivered for my game address. I don't know if that's
strictly a coincidence or whether my presence on this list has somehow
increased the probability that the server's domain will be used to generate
fake addresses for spam sent to the list.

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On 2011-06-16 at 08:41 Christopher Carson wrote:

> I believe that message slipped through the moderation process. I don’t know
> about the other moderators, but I've been having intermittent problems with
> the moderation process, where I'll mark the messages in the queue and then
> click moderate, only to have some sort of crash occur and get the message
> that 'the page could not be displayed'. That message was in the queue when
> this happened so I can only assume that it got 'mis-clicked' and ended up
> getting through.

[Dodi Schultz]

Guerri Stevens wrote:
> I got a message within my Dixonary stuff with the title "the latest
> way to make money". Sender is Helen Howard. I didn't open it.

I haven't received any such message.

The subject line tells you it's spam.

But I don't understand what you mean by "within my Dixonary stuff". A
message within another message? Or between two Dixonary messages?

—Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

Judy Madnick wrote:
> I'm assuming we all received it.
>

Nope. Not yet, anyway.

—Dodi

[Judy Madnick]

From: "Dodi Schultz" <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org>

<< Judy Madnick wrote:
<< > I'm assuming we all received it.

<< Nope. Not yet, anyway.

<< —Dodi

How did you get so lucky? <G>

Judy

[Steve Graham]

Nor I.

Steve Graham

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read. Groucho Marx


-----Original Message-----
From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Dodi Schultz
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:05 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?

Judy Madnick wrote:
> I'm assuming we all received it.
>

Nope. Not yet, anyway.

-Dodi

[MICHAEL HARRINGTON]

I don't know about Dodi and Steve, but I download my email thru MS Outlook
2007 and it automatically kicked it to the Junk email box even though it had
a dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com header on it with "on behalf of; HelenHoward
[most make maney]".

Apparently, by using the name tag "[most make maney]",(sic) the Outlook
software recognized it as out of the norm?. No other emails from the group
have ever automatically gone to junk mail.If you say you did not get it,
check your spam or junk email boxes.

Did Helen join the group to do this, or has she hacked the group email
somehow?

Mike Harrington


-----Original Message-----
From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Steve Graham
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:23 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: RE: [Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?

Nor I.

Steve Graham

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read. Groucho Marx


-----Original Message-----
From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Dodi Schultz
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:05 AM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?

Judy Madnick wrote:
> I'm assuming we all received it.
>

Nope. Not yet, anyway.

-Dodi

[Tim B]

> But I don't understand what you mean by "within my Dixonary stuff". A
> message within another message? Or between two Dixonary messages?

I don't know what Guerri meant, but in my case that message came to an address which I only use for
Dixonary, and was filtered to my Dixonary folder, so it was indeed "within my Dixonary stuff".

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Guerri Stevens]

I have filters set up in Thunderbird to direct messages to specific
folders. The spam message ended up in my Dixonary folder. That is why I
said it was "within my Dixonary stuff", admittedly not very clear
writing! I really didn't know whether it originated at the Google group
or whether it originated at tapcis.com, but my guess is the former.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
> ...
>
> But I don't understand what you mean by "within my Dixonary stuff". A
> message within another message? Or between two Dixonary messages?

[Tim Lodge]

The spam message also appeared on the Google Group website. I used
the link provided by Google to report it as spam.

-- Tim L

[Dodi Schultz]

Mike Harrington wrote:
> I don't know about Dodi and Steve, but I download my email thru MS Outlook 2007 and it automatically kicked it to the Junk email box even though it had a dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com header on it with "on behalf of; HelenHoward [most make maney]".
>

And I don't know about Steve, but Thunderbird picks up my mail from the
server and delivers it to my inbox. It apparently took one look at the
HelenHoward message and decided not to even get its hands dirty.

—Dodi

[Jim Hart]

I didn't get a personal email (sigh, nobody loves me) but it's still
on the Dixonary group site as Tim L mentioned. The text (so-called) is
nothing but dozens of variations on phrases like "make more money"


On Jun 17, 6:31*am, Tim Lodge <5sfwiy... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:
> The spam message also appeared on the Google Group website. *I used
> the link provided by Google to report it as spam.
>
> -- *Tim L

[Steve Graham]

Sometimes I don't know about Steve, either.

My Outlook 2007 downloads messages from Network Solutions' mail server, but
it didn't get to my spam folder (at least I think it didn't)

Steve Graham

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too
dark to read. Groucho Marx


-----Original Message-----
From: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com [mailto:dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf
Of Dodi Schultz
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:11 PM
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] Spammer Among Us?

Mike Harrington wrote:
> I don't know about Dodi and Steve, but I download my email thru MS Outlook
2007 and it automatically kicked it to the Junk email box even though it had
a dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com header on it with "on behalf of; HelenHoward
[most make maney]".
>

And I don't know about Steve, but Thunderbird picks up my mail from the
server and delivers it to my inbox. It apparently took one look at the
HelenHoward message and decided not to even get its hands dirty.

-Dodi

[Mike]

I've moved the thread out of public view.

[Dodi Schultz]

Guerri Stevens wrote:
> I have filters set up in Thunderbird to direct messages to specific
> folders. The spam message ended up in my Dixonary folder. That is why
> I said it was "within my Dixonary stuff", admittedly not very clear
> writing! I really didn't know whether it originated at the Google
> group or whether it originated at tapcis.com, but my guess is the former.

Ah. My Thunderbird puts everything in my inbox. It never fetched that
message.

Don't your message headers show you separate "from" and "sender" lines?
Mine do. Your message above was "from" you but the "sender" was
dixonary@googlegroups, telling me it wasn't a private communication from
your computer to mine but was distributed to the group. If I'd received
the spam message, the same would have been true. It's certainly at the
googlegroups site; I haven't checked the tapcis site, but I expect it's
there too, since that site gets all the group stuff.

—Dodi

[Guerri Stevens]

I don't see the message header unless I open the message and I didn't
want to open that message.

I did think it was odd that Tbird hadn't automatically flagged it as spam.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> Ah. My Thunderbird puts everything in my inbox. It never fetched that
> message.
>
> Don't your message headers show you separate "from" and "sender" lines?
> Mine do. Your message above was "from" you but the "sender" was
> dixonary@googlegroups, telling me it wasn't a private communication from
> your computer to mine but was distributed to the group. If I'd received
> the spam message, the same would have been true. It's certainly at the
> googlegroups site; I haven't checked the tapcis site, but I expect it's
> there too, since that site gets all the group stuff.
>
> —Dodi
>
>

[Guerri Stevens]

I sent this early this morning, but although I got no error message, it
hasn't appeared. So I apologize in advance if this turns out to be a
second copy!

I don't see the message header unless I open the message and I didn't
want to open that message.

I did think it was odd that Tbird hadn't automatically flagged it as spam.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> Ah. My Thunderbird puts everything in my inbox. It never fetched that
> message.
>
> Don't your message headers show you separate "from" and "sender" lines?
> Mine do. Your message above was "from" you but the "sender" was
> dixonary@googlegroups, telling me it wasn't a private communication from
> your computer to mine but was distributed to the group. If I'd received
> the spam message, the same would have been true. It's certainly at the
> googlegroups site; I haven't checked the tapcis site, but I expect it's
> there too, since that site gets all the group stuff.
>
> —Dodi
>
>