Is anyone else receiving LinkedIn spam messages?

Nothing of import to add, other than a ditto from another .mac email account user being spammed to the bejeesus with LinkedIn "Stop spamming me!" emails. Ugh.

I'm so glad I found this thread. My .mac account received one of those 'stop spamming me' emails today. It really worried me. More by luck than judgement, I didn't click anything but forwarded the email to spam@me – I was just hoping they could tell me what to do. Now I don't need to worry. Thanks guys, at least I know my email account hasn't been hacked

Alley_Cat wrote:

I had security breaches flagged up to me from crucial.com and play.com (both UK) last year.

It wasn't play.com, could have been crucial.com or any other vendor I've used this rather generic e-mail address for I suppose...

You know what? I've bought RAM for my Mac Pro, twice, from crucial.com as well. What a coincidence!

jamois1014 wrote:

Nothing of import to add, other than a ditto from another .mac email account user being spammed to the bejeesus with LinkedIn "Stop spamming me!" emails. Ugh.

I hesitated to consider this as spam (even considering the fact that I received several mails from LinkedIn, with at least 2 saying "stop spamming me!"). Until today, I even thought they were "sad", but legitimate, guys which were spammed by emails with my address as the "from" field.

I hesitated to click on the link, thinking I could "join temporarily" LinkedIn just to answer them I was sorry about the spam and it wasn't me and unsubscribe after, but, considering it could be spam as well, I managed to search for topics on that.

Still, I found this thread only by chance, when I just saw the list of recent posts in the Apple forums (and this thread was shown 3rd in the list).

I wonder too, if it could be aol that got hacked. Many of us have ichat accounts that use our old mac.com email...

powerbook1701 wrote:

I wonder too, if it could be aol that got hacked. Many of us have ichat accounts that use our old mac.com email...

Maybe not. I've never had anything to do with aol, as far as I know anyway. Haven't ordered anything from crucial.com either, sorry Alley_Cat

powerbook1701 wrote:

I wonder too, if it could be aol that got hacked. Many of us have ichat accounts that use our old mac.com email...

Hmm… I used to use iChat, only for one person. I've not used that since perhaps 2 years ago.

Is aol required to use iChat? (I don't remember having anything to do with aol, ever).

Is it okay to click on a spam Linkedin e-mail in order to move it to the junk folder?

I have these spam e-mails in my inbox as well and have been unsure how to move them to the junk folder or forward the message to spam@me.com, as someone above suggested, without clicking on them. Does clicking on the e-mail let the spammer know it's okay to send more?

Also, I recently received an e-mail from a friend to look at their holiday card they made on Jib Jab (a card making website). I noticed online that Jib Jab is connected to Linkedin and wonder if that is how this spam is spreading?

mac.com chats use the aol communication technology

iChat lets you easily chat via text, audio, or video with other iChat, MobileMe, Google Talk, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) users over the Internet, or on your local network via Bonjour. You can also send and receive files with iChat.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2008#

mac.com uses aol

Yes, I know what iChat is for, but I didn't thought aol was the "only" used protocol for it.

sorry, wasn't meaning anything negative. I just meant that, in the beginning, ichat used aol's servers (which when iChat came out, was toted by Apple saying you could talk to aim chat people). So, if you have an iChat account, you are using aol, basically. I have gone to aol.com, and logged into aim messenger with my mac.com info before...

this is what I was looking for, which explains way better than I can..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IChat

No worry, that's certainly a language issue (english isn't my native language). Thanks for the link!

I've received three spam emails (two yesterday and one today) supposedly from LinkedIn. Thinking I could report the first one as spam to LinkedIn, I opened the email (can't believe now that that I was stupid enough to do that!) and was directed to a pharmacy site. I immediately bounced both. But when a third email arrived this morning I really became suspicious; I did a web search and discovered that these are scam emails known to instal ZeuS malware. Now I'm really worried. Could my banking details have been compromised? Could an anti-virus program such as ClamXav show whether this malware was installed? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

There are no reported instances of ZeuS installation or operation on a Mac. ClamXav might be able to locate the installer mechanism for another platform (presumably Windows). Is there anything you don't recognize in your Download folder?