[sdiy] WARNING: Potential Adressgrabbing at dropmix.xs4all.nl

Andre Majorel aym-htnys at teaser.fr
Mon Jul 2 14:25:48 CEST 2007


On 2007-07-02 10:37 +0200, Florian Anwander wrote:

> I don't know whether you also got a mail which begins like "This is a 
> reminder, sent out once a month, about your dropmix.xs4all.nl mailing 
> list memberships."

I get one each month.

> I also got such a mail about a list, I definitely never suscribed to 
> (the list seems to be related to a website, which earns money with 
> web-adds on a boring portal).
> And also they suggest a password with which I should login for
> handling of my list account, which definitely do not fit into my
> principles of password selection.
> 
> Anyone else got mails like these (I blanked out the account and the 
> password)?:
>
> ------------------------------------snip-------------------------------------
> List                                     Password // URL
> ----                                     --------
> XXXXX at summer-stream.com                  YYYYYYYY
> http://mail.summer-stream.com/mailman/options/XXXXX_summer-stream.com/florian.anwander%40consol.de
> ------------------------------------snip-------------------------------------

Like these, but with accurate information, i.e. not about an
imaginary list hosted at summer-stream.com. Does the email
actually originate from dropmix.xs4all.nl ? What do the Received:
headers look like ?

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