There is no such thing as someone hacking your email address and sending you spam - what the spammer is doing is that he has modified his from address to be your address - that is the simplest thing to do on any MUA.
./Ok3ch

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Sam Oduor <sam.oduor@gmail.com> wrote:
For google if its in your account try might try marking the message as spam, they hv one of the best tech's in the world & for them to study the trend of that email will be in a nutshell. So it will be ending up in your bulk folder.

If its from google & you confirm the headers are also from google I think you can try go to their help to find abuse contact & forward the email again they will access it.

Offtopic:- Whats the magnitude of that spam in terms of number's in a duration of 12 hours. Would you classify it as a crisis or its jst 2 - 3 emails. I am asking this because spam cannot be mitigated 100% & you need to evaluate what percentage of spam is coming your way.


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Al Kags <alkags@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Meanwhile, does google have a strategy of how they can assist?

On 4/30/09, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote:
> @ Sam,
>
> You've given me an insight in this regard. Sometime back I read in Daily
> Nation about a police unit which was supposed to counter cyber crime related
> issues, but was disbanded and the equipment which is supposed to provide
> such information is idle at the CID Headquarters. According to the
> information, the equipment was supposed to be used by the police to combat
> technology related cases especially SIM cards( I think this came up as a
> result of the PEV that rocked Kenya in 2007). The blame on the PEV was on
> mobile phones as the sole culprit.
>
> Attempts have been made to counter cyber crime related issuesm just as these
> links provide: http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=1829 and
> http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=2390
>
> Mburu
>
> 2009/4/30 Sam Oduor <sam.oduor@gmail.com>
> > >@Mburu My concern is how someone hacks other mails with such arrogance!
> >
> >
> > Sure, this should be a general concern, its no difference from other sorts
> of cybercrime which is also not different from other forms of security in
> human life.  With the recession taking the reason behind it is due to poor
> security & people walking away freely without being penalized for offenses.
> There are so many madoff like characters around who are playing silly games
> to enrich themselves but letter the toll hits them.
> >
> > The problem is not if someone is going to be able to hack on your account
> be it email or bank account & do malice. The issues should be what "PENALTY"
> someone gets for attempting or suceeding in such attempts.   Right now the
> Pentagon & Home Defense Dept of the US are considering a different approach
> to fighting Cyber Crimes & suprisingly engaging in Cybercrime to win Wars.
> It was tabled that Cyber Crime alone can have far much more reaching effects
> on the economy of a nation than that experienced after 911 attacks...
> Imagine ?..... The pentagon from a reliable grape vine hv used counter
> offensive attack in technology to win some of their battles.  The worst case
> scenario of war experienced before was the Hiroshima story of detonating the
> atomic. The next which I hope wont happen will be right here on the net ...
> CYBERWAR.
> >
> > As a country we need to revisit issues of cyber offenses knowing very well
> kenyans are copycats au wase wa mwakenya we need to have severe punishments
> for those who engage in this sorts of activities for malicious gain. We jst
> hv guys who do the right thing for the wrong motive with no permission !
> They need to give answers & held accountable. Besides that we need a govt
> sponsored entity specifically to deal with Cyber related offenses jst like
> the Law of the land deals with Other crimes. If Migingo was in Asia or
> somewhere around Russia Geogia ehhh. "siyo reli ingeng'olewa" we should hv
> our Cyberforce chapa huyo mzee kabisa arushe mikono aseme "shikeni mali
> yenyu aiiiii" ! We seriously need to revisit our legislation on cybercrime.
> I saw someone say how can we take down the internet in an easy way. If Baba
> was around by now ungekuwa you know where but you are so lucky you hv a girl
> and you are sure he securly loves you. Whoever hates Peace likes Chaos and
> they sure will find it at their door step. Legislation should prevail.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM, MotoBaridi <motobaridi@motobaridi.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > the bots have gotten much better...
> > >
> > > -----------------------------
> > > <MotoBaridi, incoherently mumbling to self since 1981>
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 4/30/09, Al Kags <alkags@ict.go.ke> wrote:
> > > > is it me or is there a lot more spam in gmail? i am constantly getting
> > > > email from friends selling electronics that are clearly not from them?
> > > > how are they hijacking people's emails?
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