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In article <1d2mawd.pidohm5shlrkN@p23.nas1.is4.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and wrote:

>Subject: Re: New Spam tactic?
>From: Rebecca and Rowland
>Organization: The Pietertje Geeltje van der Sluis fan club
>Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 02:56:13 +0000
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
>
>Gordon Laurie <gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else been getting strange e-mails like this one?
>> 
>> >From: RSerr55702 <RSerr55702@aol.com>
>> >Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:16:19 EST
>> >To: Gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk
>> >Subject: ty
>> >Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
>> 
>> >I'm very excited to try this out. Thank you very much. If I could help you
>> >with anything...
>> 
>> >rserr624@earthlink.net
>> 
>> I'm wondering if it's some new way of spammers trying to find genuine
>> e-mail addresses. My theory goes that you get this crap message (I've had 2
>> or 3 in the past few days), then you reply to it along the lines of "Sorry,
>> don't know what you're talking about........" and then the spamming
>> b'stards have you down as a "live" address.
>> 
>> Any comments? I'm I just getting more paranoid in my old age. 
>
>This is, I'm told, something that spammers do.  Apparently, if you reply
>to a bit of spam asking to be taken off the mailing list (as they
>suggest you might like to do), the sole effect is to have you listed as
>a genuine live address, which they can then sell for more money.
>
>What I'd like to know is how to forge a bounce messsage.
>
>Rowland.

Sure, I knew about the "remove" message getting you a ton of spam in
exchange, but these messages don't mention a mailing list at all, so it's
either genuine messages (which I really doubt) or else the spammy scumbags
have a new way of acquiring live e-addresses.

Apparently they can forge the senders address too. Not much point in
sending to AOL complaining about it either.


Gordon


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