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strange messages sent to old YG group #yahoo

 

Although I set my old Yahoo group so as to block all messages, a member somehow managed to send a post and it went through without Yahoo rejecting it.

While checking the Activity Log, I was puzzled to notice loads of messages, mostly from @ accounts, sent daily to the group and rejected by Yahoo. The subject field of all rejected messages (including those not sent from @ accounts) is made up of numbers and Chinese looking characters.
Example:
Messaggio rispedito al mittente: "今 日 焦 点 白 菜 1 8 8 え 可 得 联 络 専 员 申 请 Q2802229509连界60⑷981てＯＭ "
("Messaggio rispedito al mittente" means "Rejected message")

Any idea of what it is all about?

Marina
 

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:52 AM, Marina wrote:
Although I set my old Yahoo group so as to block all messages, a member somehow managed to send a post and it went through without Yahoo rejecting it.

While checking the Activity Log, I was puzzled to notice loads of messages, mostly from @ accounts, sent daily to the group and rejected by Yahoo. The subject field of all rejected messages (including those not sent from @ accounts) is made up of numbers and Chinese looking characters.
Example:
Messaggio rispedito al mittente: "今 日 焦 点 白 菜 1 8 8 え 可 得 联 络 専 员 申 请 Q2802229509连界60⑷981てＯＭ "
("Messaggio rispedito al mittente" means "Rejected message")

Any idea of what it is all about?
Since mid-December, groups.io has been blocking all messages from "numbered accounts"?(ref:??/g/updates/message/69). There has been no further explanation but I assume Mark had a good reason.

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Bruce
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Marina,


While checking the Activity Log, I was puzzled to notice loads of messages, mostly from @ accounts, sent daily to the group and rejected by Yahoo.

Most of them because they were non-members of the group (I'm seeing similar rejections in YGOG and the Yahoo Groups GMF).

The subject field of all rejected messages (including those not sent from @ accounts) is made up of numbers and Chinese looking characters.

QQ is a service provider in china. I'm not sure why they use numbers instead of user names, but that seems to be their way.


Any idea of what it is all about?


I don't understand why so many QQ users are pounding away at Yahoo Groups posting addresses. I think maybe many of those accounts are being used by (aspiring) spammers just spewing to lists of arbitrary email addresses. Or perhaps QQ has an infestation of bots driving their servers.

In one case, a QQ user managed to join GMF and send a "what?" message (that I rejected). That rejection though lead to an off list conversation in which I learned that this person speaks (or at least reads/writes) English very well. He/She was very surprised to get a reply message from a human, had expected nothing but automated responses. He/She claimed to be unaware of how he/she became a member of the group, and I am still puzzled because I never found the expected Activity Log entries for his/her joining. At any rate, I've chalked up the incident as "mostly harmless".

Shal


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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 03:45 AM, Shal Farley wrote:
He/She claimed to be unaware of how he/she became a member of the group, and I am still puzzled because I never found the expected Activity Log entries for his/her joining. At any rate, I've chalked up the incident as "mostly harmless".
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Shal
Email spoofing (pretendinh it was you who sent it) / SPAM and SCAM trojan phishing is rife. My own domain has been scanned and I'm getting hostage/ extortion emails. Luckily I can 'dispose' of these.

Every one [of these emails] should be sent (with full headers exposed) to the FTC care of 'spam_at_uce.gov'.
u-c-e for the novice is the acronym for UNsolicited Commercial Email. (They do not respond by the way- this is simply a 'collector' address).

Trashing and bouncing at the mail system IS the most effective control. Banning the IP of the sender ISP should be considered to avoid having to deal with the emails at all.
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davew,

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Email spoofing (pretendinh it was you who sent it) / SPAM and SCAM trojan phishing is rife.
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Who said anything about spoofing? The messages I've received from QQ users are not spoofed. A bit misguided, maybe spammy (advertising), but not misleading.
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My own domain has been scanned and I'm getting hostage/ extortion emails. Luckily I can 'dispose' of these.
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Yeah, I've received some of those, as have my coworkers. Those are spoofed to be "From" oneself. The claims about my online behavior are crazy enough to clue me in that the sender has no actual knowledge of anything other than my email address. I guess they're hoping they'll scare some people into paying them.
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Every one [of these emails] should be sent (with full headers exposed) to the FTC care of ''.
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Too late now (for the one's I've received), but another good place to report actual spam / abuse is but they don't take messages that have been forwarded (as in messages to a group or group+owner), only those that arrive directly to your email.
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Shal
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