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

[Bob Stockler]

John Esak wrote (on Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:06:00PM -0500):

Your previous message to Robin, anc CCed to the List,
about this ended up in my "spam" mailbox with a score
of 06.84 (SpamAssassin).

Bob

| 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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| > (206) 236-1676
| >
| > The essence of all slavery consists in taking the produce of another's
| > labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded on
| > ownership
| > of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live on.
| >     Leo Tolstoy 1891
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