[R] Hacked

Wed Apr 18 08:14:59 CEST 2018

I don’t think that it’s a just a gmail issue. If some of you aren’t receiving those emails is probably because they get caught in your organization spam filter and they don’t reach you. 

Every time I write to the list I receive those messages. 

> On 18 Apr 2018, at 08:12, K. Elo <maillists using pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Not just an gmail issue. After my last reply I have gotten tons of
> spams from "Samantha Smith". Keep hitting my "rank as spam"-button in
> the hope that my MUA could learn :)
> 
> Best,
> Kimmo
> 
> ti, 2018-04-17 kello 19:34 +0000, Ding, Yuan Chun kirjoitti:
>> 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 gmai
>>> l.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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