phishing emails

[Charlie McVeigh]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:01 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:43 +0200, Vassilios Kotoulas wrote:
> > hi community,
> > 
> > I must warn you that somebody uses the fedora mailing lists to get email
> > adresses and to send them phishing emails. I recieved a html mail with a
> > fake ebay login which links to
> > http://140.121.196.32/phpBB2/db/index.html
> > 
> > do not enter your email login
> 
> Just curious - what makes you think they got your address from this list
> (as opposed to somewhere else)?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 

After a long break from this list, I re-subscribed and began posting at
the beginning of May.  The volume of spam that I receive has gone up by
an order of magnitude since that time.

Charlie