Re: Major issues in my group, spoofed or something internal in IO??? Help please.
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Gilly,
Most of it is childish filth but it's not on and the weird thing is ISounds like a spammer or malcontent collected addresses from your group and is sending this stuff directly to members (not via the group). But you should check the Message Activity tab of your group's Activity page just to be sure. That the messages do not appear in your Gmail sent folder implies one of two things: 1) they were smart enough to delete them after sending; 2) they were not using your Gmail account to send the messages. For case (2) there are two types of spoofing out there. The more prevalent these days is spoofing of the "display name" portion of the From field only. This is very easy to do, and most recipients don't think to check the actual address, which chances are isn't yours. Spoofing the actual email address in the From is only slightly more difficult, but it makes the message far more likely to be caught and either discarded or diverted to junk by the receiving email service. Anyone else had issues like this and is there anything else I can doA list I'm on (mailman, not Groups.io or Y!Groups) has been plagued by something similar sounding. A scammer apparently joined the list and collected the email address of anyone who posted. Then the scammer would send to that person messages of the "want a hot date tonight" variety. Some of them very NSFW (nude pictures), which upset the members who were in fact (like me) receiving the list messages at work. This has really upset me, I was a Yahoo group owner for many years andUnfortunately things like this tend to be intractable - once the email addresses are known anyone can send to them. You may have been lucky in your Yahoo Group, I've been a member of a few that have had this type of thing crop up from time to time. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Shal Farley