OT: The new total email scam from Yahoo... From John Esak...Call your congressman NOW!!! What shit!!!!

[John Esak]

No, no, no.... Bill. The amazing thing is Robin does not have an account
with yahoo!  She sent this from her regular accout, robin.hakan at eeoc.gov,
and I can assure you she has *no* idea how the *spam* got into the body of
her message. Something really insidious is going on, and Yahoo (Yahoo Ads)
is at the bottom of it.  My bet is some ad-ware "toolbar" got ivnisibly
loaded on her machine when she dowloaded something or another from yahoo, or
installed something by clicking "Typcial" instead of doing a custom install.
I'm going to have her look through her Add-Remove programs listing to see if
there is anything like "Yahoo mail administrator" or some such loaded there.
I don't see any other way this could happen.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Bill
> Campbell
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:00 PM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: OT: The new total email scam from Yahoo... From John
> Esak...Call your congressman NOW!!! What shit!!!!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006, John Esak wrote:
> >
> >Everyone.... here is the letter I just sent as HTML... translated to
> >plain-text.  What a total *SCAM* Yahoo the giant worlwide company is now
> >foisting on *everyone*.  I'm dead serious... write your
> congressman.... This
> >*shoud* be illegal. My daugter Robin had *no* idea she was
> sending me this
> >shit. We all should get very angry about this and quick.
>
> I think this comes under the TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing
> As A Free Lunch).  Yahoo's ``Free'' webmail service comes with
> strings attached.
>
> Bill
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