Re: recent spam attack

lucia greco wrote:
> Hi all:
> In the last week before the brake some one on the list sent out a msg about
> a fishing spam for cal 9. it strikes me as interesting that after I read
> that msg is when the spammers found this e-mail address.
> Over the Holladay my e-mail began to be hit with spam. Up un till last week
> I didn't get any spam. And now a few peaces a day. Interesting and strange.
> Some how the Berkeley domain is out there fore spam now.

It's certainly the case with the Calstate 9 phishing attack. Berkeley
has been heavily targeted with this particular phish, and like many
other phishing attempts, it's moving rapidly. The website that collects
the information has moved from China (before break) to (most recently)
Turkey. As soon as one site gets shut down, it migrates to another site.

I believe Calmail is now using clamAV to weed out some (most?) of these
phishing attempts, but spam in general is a never-ending battle.

michael

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Received on Mon Jan 2 11:28:27 2006