[R] Hacked

[Sariya, Sanjeev]

I've been receiving nasty e-mails too. No g-mail, but official/work e-mail address. 

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From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Rui Barradas
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:09 PM
To: Ding, Yuan Chun <ycding using coh.org>; Fowler, Mark <Mark.Fowler using dfo-mpo.gc.ca>; Luis Puerto <luiss.puerto using gmail.com>; Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder using gmail.com>
Cc: R-Help ML R-Project <r-help using r-project.org>; Neotropical bat risk assessments <neotropical.bats using gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [R] Hacked

Hello,

Nor do I, no gmail, also got spam.

Rui Barradas

On 4/17/2018 8:34 PM, Ding, Yuan Chun wrote:
> No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice.
> 
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> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of 
> Fowler, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM
> To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder
> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
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> 
> Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing. Possibly it is specific to gmail addresses?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Luis 
> Puerto
> Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM
> To: Peter Langfelder
> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting and then in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam filter. As the others, I think that there is some kind of bot subscribed to the list, but also perhaps a spider or crawler monitoring the R-Help archive and getting email addresses there. Nabble is a possibility too.
> 
>> On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails 
>> did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to 
>> the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies 
>> of this list (nabble or similar).
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I asked the moderators about it. This is the reply
>>>
>>> "Other moderators have looked into this a bit and may be able to 
>>> shed more light on it. This is a "new" tactic where the spammers 
>>> appear to reply to the r-help post. They are not, however, going through the r-help server.
>>>
>>> It also seems that this does not happen to everyone.
>>>
>>> I am not sure how you can automatically block the spammers.
>>>
>>> Sorry I cannot be of more help."
>>>
>>> --Ulrik
>>>
>>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> schrieb am Di., 17. Apr.
>>> 2018,
>>> 14:59:
>>>
>>>> Likely a spammer has joined the mailing list and is auto-replying 
>>>> to posts made to the list. Unlikely that the list itself has been 
>>>> "hacked". Agree that it is obnoxious.
>>>>
>>>> On April 17, 2018 5:01:10 AM PDT, Neotropical bat risk assessments 
>>>> < neotropical.bats using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Site has been hacked?
>>>>> Bad SPAM arriving
>>>>>
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