A new and wine related Nigerian Scam approach.

TN: 1994 L'Ecole Merlot - Jason Brandt Lewis‏
From: vivian augustine (vivian_aug04@yahoo.com)
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Sent: Thu 10/11/07 11:08 PM
To: [deleted]@hotmail.com

Dearest, I am Vivian a native of Liberia residing here in dakar as a refugee,l have some important things very personal that l will like to discuss with you, please l will not like you to be offended try as much as you can to reply to this email in my next mail l will give you full details about myself and in cluding my picure,the reason is that l will have to tell you something very important and of mutual benefit.(vivian_aug04@yahoo.com) Cares. Vivian.

Other headings [with the same message] included:

TN Bouchard Beaune, Montevertine - Marc D Bellingham

TN: Laurel Glen 2003

TN: Cosmic, Costieres,& Mapema -Dale Williams

TN Dry Crk Somers Zin 01; John T

TN: Swan Angelo's Old Vines '98 (John T)

TN: 1995 Corino, Barolo (Robert Jones)

TN: 1994 L'Ecole Merlot - Jason Brandt Lewis

NWR: But beautiful This was my view two nights ago.

Pataki: Finger Lakes to surpass Napa Valley someday.

TN: 2004 [yellowtail]© Shiraz South East Australia.

etc.

Vivian sure has good taste in winelovers -- and in some wines as well. I'm not sure where she's getting the headings for her emails, though.

Regards, Bob

Bob, I'm guessing they're old posts of yours. Not sure how she's linking emails.

I just saw the same message in my spam filter 15 minutes ago. I saw "TN: Lisini, CRB, Brun, Marquis Phillips" - wait a sec, I thought, that sounds like one of my titles. I thought at first it was from alt.food.wine, as I X-post there, but I see there I titled that episode "Lisini, Brun, 2 Aussies." But Wine Lovers Page archives shows title she used. But as far as I could see at a glance, not an email link.

hmm, notice that X-Sender address is an address that I think is an actual one Robin uses (his name at a funny spelling of a house made of ice dot com). Someone break into db?

B ob, I got one of these too with Changing header to Daumas du Gassac quiestioni n the header. I will delete and let sleeping dogs lie. I don't even care if it was somehowharvested from the WLDG.

[Robin Garr]

Okay, I see it. Alas, they're just using the OLD forum, where the "Email" links are still active.

I would hate to have to pull the forum down, although I can do it if we have to.

But first, let me see if I can just kill the old E-mail links.

(Edit: DONE. They won't be doing that any more.

Well done, Robin, thanks. Bob

[David M. Bueker]

I got the same thing, but titled "Fishing for Burgundy Info."

[Robin Garr]

I got the same thing, but titled "Fishing for Burgundy Info."

This was not really a hack. These idiots simply found their way into the old forum, started calling up posts, clicking the E-mail links, and going to town.

I've disabled the program that allows sending E-mails from the old forum - no more need for it, anyway - and that won't be happening again.