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Re: [LUG] bad apple: follow up and fall out

 

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:06 AM, tom wrote:
> Is it actually from your yahoo account - I get a lot of spam where they just
> use an email address as a spoof header - its never been near a yahoo server.

The email was accepted by the list server from Yahoo's mail server. So
at the very least it came through Yahoo's servers. The fact that it
was sent to addresses in his address book (not just this one, as I
understand it) suggests that they have had access to his account.

Btw, I created a Yahoo account myself and send some emails to other
addresses of mine. They all come with a X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService
header; in fact the headers are the same as the email that started
this discussion. So we can't conclude they used Yahoo's API.

Martijn.

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