News: Article: Forged emails and Gna! admins
[110 news in archive]
Article: Forged emails and Gna! admins
Item posted by Mathieu Roy <yeupou> on Thu 13 Jan 2005 08:37:56 AM UTC.
Sometimes, we, "Gna! people", the admins, contact users (that means you of the likes of you :)) by mail, for different kind of reasons. To be sure a mail was really sent by one of us, if it claims to be so:
- First check if it comes from someone listed at <https://gna.org/project/memberlist.php?group=admin>
- Then check the GPG signature of the mail
- Finally, check if the list help or the list project were added in carbon-copy (it is likely to be the case)
If you have any doubts, fill a support request at <https://gna.org/support/?group=admin>
Here comes a sample of forged email:
-----------SAMPLE BEGIN-----------
Dear user $YOURACCOUNT@gna.org,
We have detected that your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of spam during the recent week.
Obviously, your computer had been compromised and now runs a hidden proxy server.
We recommend that you follow instruction in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.
Virtually yours,
The gna.org support team.
-----------SAMPLE END-----------
Please disregard such mails.
Comments:
| Awesome (posted by simian, Wed 03 Oct 2012 10:49:19 AM UTC) |
Awesome job, guys.
http://techker.com/reddit-the-hottest-social-news
|

