A series of subscription requests arrived today with signs of forgery. They
came in to our former provider, who is using listproc. listproc requires
that the user specify his name, as in:
subscribe listname My Name Here
All the lists - being at our former provider - are closed with requests
bouncing to me, thus I caught the problem. The series all have the userid
repeated twice as the given name:
pfluger@rocky.oswego.edu - pfluger pfluger
sermoner1@aol.com - sermoner1 sermoner1
aollegalstaff@aol.com - aollegalstaff aollegalstaff
chris@delirium.mit.edu - chris chris
georgia6@hr.house.gov - georgia6 georgia6
jcs@enteract.com - jcs jcs
mtvyak1@aol.com - mtvyak1 mtvyak1
jason.peck@sdoct.com - jason.peck jason.peck
This began just after 3:30pm this afternoon, and as of this writing (9:38pm
Sunday) is still ongoing. I think that all lists at that provider - and
perhaps many others - are being hit. jason.peck is merely the latest, but
not necessarily the last. While many of these addresses I do not recognize,
I assume aollegal is a real address, and georgia6, as I recall, is the
Speaker of the House.
Neither, I assume, has much interest in my lists.
Ken Menken
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