[R] Hacked

Wed Apr 18 15:58:21 CEST 2018

Not necessarily. The R-help archives are publicly accessible,
with a "sort by date" option. So if someone sets up a web=page
monitor which reports back when new messages appear there
(at the bpottom end), then their email addresses are readily
copied (subject to " at " --> "@".

Once they have the address then anything can happen!

Best wishes,
Ted (eagerly awaiting attempted seduction ... ).

On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 10:36 +0000, Fowler, Mark wrote:
> Seems it must be the R-list. A horde of ‘solicitation’ emails began arriving about 27 minutes after I posted about not seeing any! Had left work by that time, so did not encounter them until now.
> 
> From: Mark Leeds [mailto:markleeds2 using gmail.com]
> Sent: April 18, 2018 12:33 AM
> To: Rui Barradas
> Cc: Ding, Yuan Chun; Fowler, Mark; Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder; R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
> 
> 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<mailto: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<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<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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:neotropical.bats using gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Site has been hacked?
> Bad SPAM arriving
> 
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