[R] Hacked

[Mark Leeds]

Hi All: I lately get a lot more spam-porn type emails lately also but I
don't know if they are due to me being on
the R-list.



On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Nor do I, no gmail, also got spam.
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> On 4/17/2018 8:34 PM, Ding, Yuan Chun wrote:
>
>> No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Fowler,
>> Mark
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM
>> To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder
>> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
>> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
>>
>> [Attention: This email came from an external source. Do not open
>> attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing.
>> Possibly it is specific to gmail addresses?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Luis
>> Puerto
>> Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM
>> To: Peter Langfelder
>> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
>> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting and
>> then in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam filter. As
>> the others, I think that there is some kind of bot subscribed to the list,
>> but also perhaps a spider or crawler monitoring the R-Help archive and
>> getting email addresses there. Nabble is a possibility too.
>>
>> On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder using gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails
>>> did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to
>>> the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies
>>> of this list (nabble or similar).
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo using gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I asked the moderators about it. This is the reply
>>>>
>>>> "Other moderators have looked into this a bit and may be able to shed
>>>> more light on it. This is a "new" tactic where the spammers appear to
>>>> reply to the r-help post. They are not, however, going through the
>>>> r-help server.
>>>>
>>>> It also seems that this does not happen to everyone.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure how you can automatically block the spammers.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I cannot be of more help."
>>>>
>>>> --Ulrik
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> schrieb am Di., 17. Apr.
>>>> 2018,
>>>> 14:59:
>>>>
>>>> Likely a spammer has joined the mailing list and is auto-replying to
>>>>> posts made to the list. Unlikely that the list itself has been
>>>>> "hacked". Agree that it is obnoxious.
>>>>>
>>>>> On April 17, 2018 5:01:10 AM PDT, Neotropical bat risk assessments <
>>>>> neotropical.bats using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Site has been hacked?
>>>>>> Bad SPAM arriving
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>>
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