[TR] Herman Van den Akker faked message

[Randall]

Same thing happened to me a few months ago.  The message did not come
through the list, but appeared to be from a club member.  Evidently some
other list member's computer had gotten infected with a virus, that sent all
their contact information to a hacker in Africa.  The email I received
actually originated there, not in England as it stated.

As far as I know, the list only checks the return address to decide if a
message is from a list member or not.  Faking a return address is trivial,
so it would be quite possible to send a fake message through the list.  It
just hasn't happened yet (again AFAIK).

My point is to trust nothing you receive by email, whether it appears to be
from the list or not.

-- Randall