On 10 May 2008 22:42:58 GMT, Opus the Penguin wrote:
>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?
Bob's waiting for an invitation from Bill Bonde.
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