Spam mentioning fedora

Tristan Santore tristan.santore at internexusconnect.net
Sat Apr 30 12:19:15 UTC 2011


On 30/04/11 13:00, security-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:44:30 +0200
> From: Casper <casper.le.fantom at gmail.com>
> Subject: spam and fedorahosted
> To: security at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID: <20110430114430.GA2704 at Blackbird>
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> Hello,
> this morning I received a spam so troubling :
> 
>> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:30:19 +0530 (IST) 
>> From: riter dioh <riterdioh32 at indiatimes.com>
>> To: riterdioh32 at yahoo.com
>> Subject:
>> X-Mailer: Zimbra 5.0.6_GA_2313.RHEL4_64 (zclient/5.0.6_GA_2313.RHEL4_64)
>> Message-ID: <1564463416.1105311304128819040.JavaMail.root at tilmb14.indiatimes.com>
>>
>> Hello dear,
>> how are you today? My name is Riter  i saw you advert on this site (https://fedorahosted.org) and
>> i decided to contact you base on your searching, if you wouldn't mind, i will like you to contact
>> me through this email addresss (riterdioh32 at yahoo.com) so we can discuss according to your advert,
>> Best Regard,
>> Riter.
> 
> A spam speaking about Fedora ?!?
> Why I think it's a spam ? Because the response adress towards yahoo
> How spammer recovered my adress ?
> Maybe it's a security failure of the infrastucture...
> Please help me

Apologies to the list for not changing the subject line and breaking the
thread.

Regards,

Tristan
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Tristan Santore BSc MBCS
TS4523-RIPE
Network and Infrastructure Operations
InterNexusConnect
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Former Thawte Notary
(Please note: Thawte has closed its WoT programme down,
and I am therefore no longer able to accredit trust)

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