[geeks] Spammity spam, wonderful spam

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Anyone else getting LOTS of spam with your own post topics sent back to you 
> from Joe Blow in Blowsville dot somerandomdomain with a Form.xls appointment?

I have.

All the XLS files would try to open a web page on the same machine
hosted by "Changway" in Hong Kong.  I reported that machine to the ISP
on Friday, but it was still up the last time I checked.

> I don't know whether this is "someone's account has been compromised" or 
> "some richard somewhere is scraping an archive for addresses and post 
> titles".

It's "access to the Internet should be a privilege revokable from those
who abuse it."

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA