Fw: [Histonet] Re: Illegal spam

[Jan Shivers]

Ever since I subscribed to the Histonet, I've been receiving a lot of spam 
every day (mostly from people in Africa/Europe, either telling me I've won 
the lottery or asking me for my bank account number so that they can smuggle 
money out of their country).

I can understand receiving this spam if this was a private home email 
account, with medium security levels, but I work at a University that has a 
very tight security system on their incoming email, so the only thing I can 
figure out is that this mail is getting through via a Histonet member's 
addressbook.

I must have to delete 10-15 of these spams a day (it's the only spam I get, 
too).  Very frustrating.  Anybody have any suggestions as to how to 
eliminate these pesky creatures?  Blocking the Sender doesn't work; they 
just change their addresses.

Jan Shivers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jackie M O'Connor" <Jackie.O'Connor <@t> abbott.com>
To: <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>; 
<histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:16 AM
Subject: [Histonet] Re: Illegal spam


>I received an email from some moron calling himself "Bob Lama" about a
> free atm card - clearly an illegal scam asking me to send $600 for my
> $10milllion ATM card.  I'm curious if this came from a histonet source, or
> should I look elsewhere for where this scam picked up my email address?
>
> Jackie O'
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