[Ansteorra] Hacked Account

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Dana Busenbark <danab-steppes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Spammers like to make things look like you sent it out, including to
> yourself. If your email is posted anywhere to the net, they will
> snag it and use it.

The technical term is "joe job".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job> explains

     A joe job is a spamming technique that sends out unsolicited
     e-mails using spoofed sender data. Early joe jobs aimed at
     tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the
     recipients to take action against him (see also e-mail spoofing),
     but they are now typically used by commercial spammers to conceal
     the true origin of their messages. ...

     The name "joe job" originated from such a spam attack on Joe Doll,
     webmaster of Joe's Cyberpost. One user's joes.com account was
     removed due to advertising through spam. In retaliation, the user
     sent another spam with the "reply-to" headers forged to make it
     appear to be from Joe Doll. [1] Besides prompting angry replies,
     it also caused joes.com to fall prey to denial-of-service attacks
     that took the web site down temporarily. ...

Danel de Linccolne
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com