Hello...

Alejandro Imass aimass at yabarana.com
Wed Aug 15 18:13:22 UTC 2018


It's a controversial topic so expect some heated debate. or not.
Mailing lists are really hard to maintain so it's just easier to erase
all the spam and scams which are not really that many at least on this
list.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Antranig Vartanian
<antranigv at freebsd.am> wrote:
> I have noticed that there are a lot of scams in the mailing lists (not only
> FreeBSD).
> Is there any reason why such thing are not filtered (or maybe those do pass
> the filters?)
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:51 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting scam.
>>
>> The from domain hkma.com is very old and seems legit (1999) and has no
>> Web presence so they found a perfect cover.
>> The reply-to is forged to a new domain hkmaonline.com which was
>> registered last month by someone apparently in Toronto through tucows.
>>
>> It's unbelievable how many IT-educated people (in corporations that
>> train their employees to spot these) fall for these scams every day.
>> Extrapolate that to the general population and this stuff is big
>> business!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Mr. Norman Chan <normanchan at hkma.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I want to make a Donation, reply to this email for Details.
>> >
>> > Mr. Norman Chan
>> > 700
>> >
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