I've been seeing this trend for > 8 months on my domains. Spam are increasingly worded to correlate on the topics the recipient has participated in, and MW said, security. I remember recently, one had subject header "Buffer Overflow" and appeared to be from the [Full-Disclosure] list
----- Original Message ----- From: "Morning Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:32 AM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Spam is funny! > >> Anyone else seeing this trend? I'd be curious especially to see whether >> or not they're "targeting" folks in non-IT roles. For example, do we >> have any veterinarians on the list who get stock spam with subjects >> related to animal husbandry? > > yup, lots of odd topics, in particular they do appear to come from mailman > lists where you have subscribed, I get spam subjects and body content from > what appears to be recently discussed topics, although only "security" > security > lists. ( and yes, universaly they are penny stock dump spam ) > > mw > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
