[MR] spam

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Although many yahoo accounts were hacked back in July of this year, it's also true that only 5% were valid email addresses.  Given the amount of people that appear to have been hacked (not just on this list but upon many other lists), that all the sites appear to be have Cyrillic script embedded in them( don't try this at home!), and that this is recent, I'm sure this is something new that just hasn't been reported yet.  I'll check on the hacking and IT security communities later today to see what is up.  However, it also may be a case of people being too trusted - since it's most common here on the MR- and clicking the link without verifying that it is, indeed, something that should be clicked on.  

-Lady Isabella

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>    1. Re: spam (Patty)

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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:15:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Patty <patoodle at aol.com>
> To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] spam
> Message-ID: <8CF6A4B92EEF61F-FDC-37918 at webmail-d134.sysops.aol.com>
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> Lord Karl wrote:
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> Message: 5Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:16:10 -0500 (CDT)From: reddoyle at verizon.netTo: atlantia at atlantia.sca.orgSubject: [MR] spamMessage-ID: <2922444.1104410.1348683371068.JavaMail.root at vznit170176>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"   My God the Merry Rose has been SPAMED.!   Karl Haraldsson------------------------------ 
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> It's my understanding that 400,000 Yahoo accounts were hacked: http://www.zdnet.com/yahoo-confirms-400000-accounts-hacked-less-than-5-valid-7000000812/. Unfortunately, some of the accounts belong to our fellow SCAdians. Please don't click on the links, and with any luck, the spam will go away soon.
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> In service,
> Patricia of Trakai
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