Bob Ward (bobward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> On Fri, 09 May 2008 20:27:00 -0500, msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mark Brader)
> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> No, what Bob is talking about is getting the same piece of spam
> from dozens of people who claim to have met me on Stickam and want
> to be my special friend, with a link to contact them on Stickam.
Why does Bob keep ignoring my invitations?
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This is so obviously ludicrous that it's hard to get very interested
in contradicting it. - Pushmi-Pullyu
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