On Saturday, February 24, 2007, 21:24:11, Ian A. White wrote:
I know it certainly is possible for spammers to use dictionary methods
to get your e-mail address, however when you do not use dictionary
words in your username, it points to someone harvesting them.
Tell that to spammers trying to
On Sunday, February 25, 2007, 21:18:33, Ian A. White wrote:
That is a little different in that there spammers are targeting a
known domain. The spam (and I have received even more now) is not
coming to my domain (where I restrict the usernames I will accept
anyway), but to a slave address at
Hi,
I use an e-mail address on these lists that is not used anywhere else,
but I have received my first spam to this address.
Well, that doesn't mean anything. I have an email address that I never
use (I got it all along with my ISP connection) and from time to time
I got a spam mail to that
Raymund Tump wrote:
I use an e-mail address on these lists that is not used anywhere
else, but I have received my first spam to this address.
RT Well, that doesn't mean anything. I have an email address that I never
RT use (I got it all along with my ISP connection) and from time to time
RT I
Hello George
On Saturday, February 24, 2007 you wrote:
Raymund Tump wrote:
I have a lot of addresses at this domain and it's very rare for any of
them to get a spam. There's no way a dictionary attack is hitting my
list address and no others.
Spammers are clever. Dictionary attacks etc.
Hello Ian,
Friday, February 23, 2007, 9:17:44 PM, you wrote:
IAW I use an e-mail address on these lists that is not used anywhere else,
IAW but I have received my first spam to this address.
I thought I could say the same with such an address on a another, local,
list.
Actually, you can't be
Ian A. White wrote on 24/02/2007 at 07:17:44 +1100
subject Someone is harvesting e-mail addresses from these lists :
I use an e-mail address on these lists that is not used anywhere else,
but I have received my first spam to this address.
There could be one of the list members infected with
Hello Simon,
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:12:38 + GMT (24/02/2007, 04:12 +0700 GMT),
Simon wrote:
S I too suspect that one of the list members had a Virus and became
S compromised, though I also think in the past some mails from my
S have slipped through to GMane when I have forgotten to add the
S
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