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Postby magicdiscoman » Dec 15th, '11, 01:15



just had my inbox fill up with loads of garbige from lots of diferent people I don't know, all with a link back to the learned pig e-mail, this is clearly a scam don't click it or you will go on a list and spam other people you don't know who may get anoyed at you. :D

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Alec Burns » Dec 15th, '11, 01:29

It's hit me too! How do we stop it?

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby magicdiscoman » Dec 15th, '11, 01:48

since its only coming in on my public e-mail address then I have to asume I'm on someones list who clicked the link and opened themselves to being botted to spam other people, by not clicking the link your mail address should fall out of the list fairly quickly, its like one of thoughs chain letters, if you don't respond it dies eventualy.

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby mrz0mbie » Dec 15th, '11, 09:29

There's a bug in the new learned pig email client and somebody got hold of the members list. They sent out a spam message but instead of using CC they just put everybody's email into the To box. So when anybody replies to the spam, everybody on the to list gets a copy of the email. Whenever somebody responds to any of those, everybody gets a copy.

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby A J Irving » Dec 15th, '11, 09:45

I've now had close to 100 emails all pretty much saying 'please dont respond to any of these emails, they're going out to everybody'. If they listened to their own advice we wouldn't be in this situation!

It's like someone making a noise in a crowded library then everybody else shushing them and then shushing everybody else who shushed in the first place and then shushing all those shushers so now we're all covered in horrible sticky shush! :shock: :wink:

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Ted » Dec 15th, '11, 11:25

mrz0mbie wrote:There's a bug in the new learned pig email client and somebody got hold of the members list. They sent out a spam message but instead of using CC they just put everybody's email into the To box. So when anybody replies to the spam, everybody on the to list gets a copy of the email. Whenever somebody responds to any of those, everybody gets a copy.


That's not quite how it works, but the effect is certainly the same.
There are some quite humorous messages appearing at the moment. And some very angry ones. I'm inclined to enjoy the situation rather than get upset, though :)

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby jomarchan » Dec 15th, '11, 11:56

I agree with Ted. I have had about 100 messages. Some of them are actually funny so it is quite entertaining at the moment. A bit more concerning is how nasty some of them can be to each other and about Marko. These are fellow Magicians???

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Robbie » Dec 15th, '11, 13:19

Aww, I haven't got any. I'm feeling quite left out.

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Beardy » Dec 15th, '11, 14:06

Is there a way to stop them coming through?

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Ted » Dec 15th, '11, 14:12

Beardy wrote:Is there a way to stop them coming through?


I think that the best way is to configure your email client's filter to ditch anything with ezine@thelearnedpig.com.pa in the To: field.

If you use Gmail or similar then you won't even need to download the messages before they get binned.

Don't set it up to reject messages From: ezine.... etc because that won't work. It has to be 'To:' that address.

I was enjoying the messages up until the point when someone posted images of diseased female genitalia. At that point I reached for the filter...

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Heckler » Dec 15th, '11, 14:30

Ted wrote:I was enjoying the messages up until the point when someone posted images of diseased female genitalia. At that point I reached for the filter...


Er yeah, that's kind of where I tuned out.

Who the chuff has that sitting around on their hard drive to attach to an email? :shock:

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Discombobulator » Dec 15th, '11, 14:31

I work for a very large multinational.

We occasionally have a 'mailbomb' where someone innocently sends a reply to an email not realising that the distribution list is about 100,000 co-workers.
someone else then replies [to everyone] saying "this is not for me, please remove my name from your distribution list"
and someone else puts "please remove me too"

Suddenly we get a junior manager, replying to everyone saying "please do not reply to everyone"
then we get more and more senior managers demonstrating their lack of understanding and flexing their egos by replying and saying "really, you must not reply to everyone"

anyone who does reply to everyone wishes they did not because they get their inbox filled with many "out of office" autoreplies

and so the whole thing snowballs.

Moral: do not 'reply to all' when you receive a email addressed to lots of people or to a large distribution group.

Beardy - you can set an autofilter on most email systems to intercept emails from a specific sender or a specific subject, and have them go to your email wastebin.

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Craig Browning » Dec 15th, '11, 14:38

A couple of times the past year or two I've encountered this problem and in two ways;
1.) a site I have frequented in the past sends me a note with a link and in responding I become a target until I block all eMail traffic from said source
2.)my eMail is usurped and used as the sender to multiple accounts (basically, my entire address book) and in turn, those addresses are exploited in a similar manner.

I know that Looch and I had a serious problem develop some time back because of these situations and I believe Paul Brook was also hit by it not to long ago. It's a royal pain. The only way I've been able to thwart most of it is to block the .com address, etc.

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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Ted » Dec 15th, '11, 14:40

Here's how with Gmail...
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Re: dom't click the link to learned pig

Postby Heckler » Dec 15th, '11, 14:40

Discombobulator wrote:I work for a very large multinational.


With a very naive mail administrator. Best practice is all distribution lists above a certain size should have a permission list that prevents anyone but the list owner (or subordinates) sending to it (or replying to emails sent to it).

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