OK Ben, a question for you... Other than being a pain In the butt, what benefit do these type of spammers derive from such an activity. I understand some of the hoaxes that get folks to give up username and password for bank accounts and PayPal, but what was to be gained with an email like they sent from Norm or the continuous barrage of Viagra emails? Does anybody actually try to buy Viagra from an email?
Doesn't make sense to me... Sam **************************** Sam Densler Songwriters Island Radio www.songwriters-island.com S/V Lady of the Lake PDQ 36, Hull #15 Punta Gorda, FL http://www.islandfx.com/lady **************************** "If you ever wonder why you ride the carousel, you do it for the stories you can tell." Jimmy Buffett "Stories We Could Tell" A1A On Sep 5, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:23:43PM -0400, Norm wrote: >> >> Ben, >> >> Yes, it does seem that the spammers did get my address book because I am >> getting bounced notices from addresses that are actually in my old address >> book, addresses I have not had contact with for years in some cases. > > As I mentioned, that was one of the possibilities - but it still has > nothing to do with Earthlink passwords, etc. The best bet is still to > change your address and warn your contacts to block the old one. > > > Ben > -- > OKOPNIK CONSULTING > Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business > Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming > 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
