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

[Scott Shackelford]

 I'll bet it's a Yahoo search bar or Instant Messenger client. Either way,
that's pretty bad!!

	-Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of John Esak
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:06 PM
To: Fplist (E-mail)
Subject: RE: OT: The new total email scam from Yahoo... From JohnEsak...Call
your congressman NOW!!! What shit!!!!

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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