As you can see, the MX record is pointed to mail.example.com at 10.0.0.0. Example.com has been reserved for use in documentation by the IETF and 10.0.0.0/8 is an RFC1918 reserved address.
Therefore none of this is real because example.com can’t be registered and 10.0.0.0 is a reserved private IP.
After reading your last post, something smells a bit fishy… a test gone wrong ?!? Hopefully suspicions are wrong and it’ll be fixed and no more spamming.
I’ve just checked the Unaboard, FFF, and the snopes messageboard to see if people there are reporting anything similar - they aren’t. This seems to be SDMB specific.
X-Mailer:
Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
Importance:
Normal
X-MimeOLE:
Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
In-Reply-To:
<597FB09XRD98VPSMA7OM86MLANHYV.3ccb3a1c@the-hive>
If this guy is using Outlook and we’re in his address book, could it be that he’s picked up a virus?
Or that he’s an SDMB member and the newsletter has been sent out to his wrong contacts list?
If you are an SDMB member, Steve, could you please let us know that you accidentally mailed the newsletter to the wrong contact list, just so we don’t have to be concerned about the SDMB database having been accessed?
Another data point: I was not registered previously or on the temp board. I registered within the last couple months to finally delurk, have my E-mail address hidden, and did not receive any spam like this.
Has anyone else who received the email attachment from ginawilkerson scanned it - I don’t trust my virus scanner to quarantine it, but as it’s the first email I got, I wonder if it started this whole chain of events.
The following came to me at least 10 times, along with various replies:
Hi there,
This is James at BadRat.com. If you’re a human being and you happen to be reading this, then you’ve been using one of my old e-mail addresses. These include:
If you’re a representative of a business, please unsubscribe the above addresses from your database. If you’re a friend or relative, my official address is now info@badrat.com. Please update your address book.
EZ-Board membership maybe? I got a 70+ of them at the addy I use here and dopers downunder. My note to steverichards@sobevideo.com was not terribly polite
I also got them this a.m., sent a blank email out to the unsubscribe address and have not gotten anything since about 1:30 PDT.
I don’t remember if I registered at the temp board or not. I have recently changed my email here; I didn’t check to see if it went to my forwarding account or my school account, and I trashed all the messages.
I never open attachments, and Eudora is supposed to trash them when I trash the message, so I can’t check it out for you.
I got the e-mails from ginawilkerson, but didn’t get the attachment. Got two or three e-mails from her in the mass. The last one she sent I opened and she was begging to be pulled off the list, so I don’t think that she got hit by some kind of virus.
I registered at the temp board and my addy’s always been public here. Reprise if you want, you can send me the attachment, I’ve got to reformat my harddrive anyway, so I doubt that it could do a lot of harm.
The ginawilkerson attachment is just a copy of the newsletter she received - I suspect she was trying to unsubscribe; odd that I recieved that from her addy before I received the newsletter itself.
It’s also extremely odd that we aren’t all receiving every new response to the list.
Just as another data point - how many of you are using Outlook.
I’m not, I use Opera’s inbuilt mail client.
BTW, I’ve sent Steve an email asking him to contact the SDMB admins pronto to explain this mess.
I can’t imagine someone actually sat here and harvested screen names from profiles one at a time, but it COULD happen, if someone was patient enough.
What the point is, however, I don’t see, as no one would appreciate what we’ve been getting . . . and the resultant uproar certainly makes 'em no friends.
Don’t feel sorry for Steve : this was his email response to me -
We’re very sorry for the problem. This was a test that went awry I’m
afraid. We’ll get you off the list and are trying to figure out what
happened. Very sorry for the trouble its caused you and others.
Steve Richards
Suggest everyone keeps up with the ATMB thread where Tuba has posted.
