Bob Ward writes:
> Has anyone else been getting lots of people "from stickam" wanting you
> to be their special friend? I assume that someone has created some
> sort of an exploit that will infect your system if you click on the
> link, but they are all using the same template, so the element of
> surprise is gone.
For me, on May 1 there was a significant increase in the amount of spam
that got past Vex's greylisting and my bogofiltering. Of the ones that
I glance at enough to see what they're about, the most common types are
(1) messages with vaguely worded allusions [this omitting the most
filterable keywords] to ***ual enhancements, and (2) advertising for...
um... non-genuine brand-name timepieces.
About 20% of the messages that are reaching me -- all of these of the
latter type -- are allegedly from the same user who is also on vex.net.
(I should add a procmail rule to kill those sometime.)
So presumably some of the spamming software is using a fixed list of
destination addresses and email sent to victim N has victim N-1's
address as the forged sender. What Bob is talking about could be the
same sort of thing.
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