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Thanks to everyone with feedback on and off-list! Good (so to speak) to be aware that people are seeing this from various sources around the traps. One to add to our awareness training, it would seem.</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 2 June 2021 1:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> James Williamson <james.williamson@plc.wa.edu.au><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Bigpond email abuse</font>
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<div class="PlainText">--EMAIL FROM EXTERNAL ADDRESS, CHECK LINKS & ATTACHMENTS BEFORE CLICKING OR OPENING THEM--<br>
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Greetings James (and Others)<br>
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Yes I have seen it (I have well and truly deleted the SPAM emails and moved on though).<br>
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It was a google hosted domain. From recollection the user changed his access details related to the domain and his email, end of problem. So it seems not to be just a bigpond or Google issue.<br>
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A good reminder to "change passwords" and make sure they are of a good secure structure. I am often still amazed out how poor some individuals are about passwords.<br>
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Regards, Phil<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "James Williamson" <james.williamson@plc.wa.edu.au><br>
To: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
Sent: Wednesday, 2 June, 2021 3:03:22 PM<br>
Subject: [AusNOG] Bigpond email abuse<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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We saw an external user a few months ago who had their Bigpond address compromised, and the entire mailbox dumped. Afterwards, they discovered friends and colleagues are receiving replies to years-old threads (although the new message is from a random email
address), usually with some sort of phishing link. Now we've seen it again with a second and unrelated Bigpond user.<br>
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Has anybody seen anything similar before? I'm not familiar with this breed of spam, and to see two of them from the same host has my curiosity up a bit. Trying to find other cases like this eluded my Google-fu.<br>
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[example, redactions mine]<br>
From: Robyn ******* <Robyn*********@anetafons.pl> <br>
Sent: Friday, 21 May 2021 2:32 AM<br>
To: Allison ******* <Allison.******@******.au><br>
Subject: Re: RE: ********<br>
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--EMAIL FROM EXTERNAL ADDRESS, CHECK LINKS & ATTACHMENTS BEFORE CLICKING OR OPENING THEM--<br>
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Good afternoon,<br>
It's Robyn *******. Please look at the report and deal with any problems. Here is the document link:<br>
<a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!*******?e=ysj***">https://1drv.ms/u/s!*******?e=ysj***</a><br>
password: 5214 <br>
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On 2018-12-07 15:34, Allison ******** wrote:<br>
Hi Allison<br>
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Thanks so much for your time in showing me around **** recently. I was <br>
really impressed with your knowledge of the programs and facilities, <br>
and the ***** in general.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
James<br>
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