Anyone else get this spam?

Hi All,
long time gone, busy with stuff.

Forum seems a bit - quiet?

Avast quote Reuters article from 2 days ago saying that 273 million email accounts have been hacked. My Gmail spam filter caught this today.

No google results for StreamSmooth, nothing on the forum I can find.

Changing passwords obviously.

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from: Nancy Langelo <[email protected]>
reply-to: nancy at wiigroups dot com
to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx atgmaildotcom
date: 7 May 2016 at 15:59
subject: Notebook Reviews account information
mailed-by: pmta769.dedicated.bmsend.com
Signed by: pmta769.dedicated.bmsend.com
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Notebook Review Community,
We have some great news for the whole forum community regarding a partnership which we have signed with a live streaming tv company.
Our forum management has partnered with wuhwuhwuhStreamSmoothdotcom (link removed) to bring you the ultimate entertainment experience for a very affordable price. You can access over 200 tv channels including your favourite sports packages and entertainment packages and all pay per view content for just a few dollars per month. This means you will get every ufc pay per view event, boxing pay per view event, and all of the general entertainment channels you love from Canada, United States, and all of Europe.
This offer is only valid for 48 hours so please take this opportunity to visit our partners and signup to show support for the notebook review community. Simply go to (same link removed) and click sign up on the top right. You will be able to signup and enjoy the service right away!
Let us know what you think of the great new service.
regards,
Nancy

 

thats an old one that ran amok here a while back.

 

there has been a compromise of many gmail accounts .
i keep getting pinged by "avast" .
oh yeah ...
"avast" seems to be fairly light on resources and thus places less of a load on my '30 and other machines .

 

I use Comodo and SuperAnti Spyware

 

Yes I got it too, titled "Notebook Reviews account information". It links to "http: //benchemail.bmetrack.com/c/u?e=952E15&c=9B952&t=0&l=43529BF1&email=MLU9OIzaeUCc0hhhlIPQwDciHg%2FVbFy1" to " Manage Your Subscription and Profile" for an outfit I've never heard of either. Tying our email addresses to a forum is getting universal. There's a special place in Hades for these spammers. Changed password.

 

Just got this too.

 

Hi everyone,

Just posted this over in another thread, but will add it here too:

This message was sent to some members using email addresses obtained from a systems breach that occurred in 2013 due to a vBulletin security vulnerability. Some members received a similar email from the same company (StreamSmooth aka UseMyTV) in October 2015. We do not believe our systems/user information have been compromised since that 2013 breach.

We are doing everything we can to pursue the violators and prevent any future solicitations of this type. Apologies again for any inconvenience.

If you have any additional questions or information that you think would be helpful, please reply to this thread or message me directly.

Thanks,
Ben (forum admin)

 

Thanks for the response that it's an old hack that the scumbag resurrected again with new phishing emails.

 

can you imagine that ...
a thief so lazy that he can't be bothered to write his own fresh material ?!
in the music industry the guy would be known as a "cover hack" ... he plays others songs .
sort of like : "michael bolton screams the greatest hits of everybody else" .