I have been seeing "targeted" spam for a while now - typically from someone with my last name and a random first name, and a familiar subject line.
Just wait until they start using the _text_ from open mail lists as well. Regards Marshall On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Joe Greco wrote: >> Well -- spammers are following the NANOG list in real-time, it seems. A = >> few hours after my post this afternoon, I received some spam with a = >> correct Subject: line for that post. I'll be happy to forward the email = >> to anyone who wants to analyze it or find the offender and permanently = >> blacklist "her" from NANOG... > > Funny you should mention that. About two seconds before your message, > I got such a bit of spam. > >> From [email protected] Tue Dec 7 17:43:02 2010 >> Return-Path: <[email protected]> >> Received: from nm15.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com >> (nm15.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.90.78]) >> by mx1.sol.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/SNNS-1.04) with SMTP id oB7Ngtf7002716 >> for <[email protected]>; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:43:00 -0600 (CST) >> Received: from [98.138.90.51] by nm15.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; >> 07 Dec 2010 23:42:50 -0000 >> Received: from [98.138.87.1] by tm4.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 >> Dec 2010 23:42:50 -0000 >> Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Dec >> 2010 23:42:50 -0000 >> X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 >> X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: [email protected] >> Received: (qmail 17052 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Dec 2010 23:42:49 -0000 >> DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; >> t=1291765369; bh=Nwik8gyzMPW2hSR2Fc+0a6ZUu1s5oHBhOjv0Shs9wCE=; >> h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; >> >> b=4Yw5bYZ0DJq7pbortuz7YK0J5opr+dQ0vk3FJ3V5uTF/jVuFRcu9hJxBZ/8u4xakvycmSMYOFDMR3oFL6t2JmSt3x4JZmCnDjlS79cL3arFsW/a0aBm9pubfPCYqijis3iCY6uNhji6JxYe0OWsMlHU3qTNohvs+dwMUl/gQ8R0= >> DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; >> s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; >> >> h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; >> >> b=a+L6kibArtNLl3qtSuIHEDxKt2dZfrXLRiUE91IWnNsW6NZ11W6RG51LRXFK288erRYh7k9t2evvpBxbkAH7XKQ/B/+lIBaZqgZ5ON3MC3ziMmhrjn3UIX1o1obMDz0vO7R94K4iapDIpVlD9xXPOSgc1ENMoW8GA6eoKKRDUbs=; >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> X-YMail-OSG: tTFoZPoVM1lORXP10bFDAvyxx.jFIQDoUGJ6hUxCf6q8Tbk >> 8RkTR2Q6BakFB1l6t1W5BdZ4fPFVQEWRX_TSB16hGCUxPmFhrTru8ItaSrSg >> oF9x5JBC6GwAHAwzXaeCohqEqZsyOLa9vBCXu_kKyxJv_zCea2QtIZ_PFH23 >> rGr_j.u85nfOQA_6VJ3uLvtpJ75N0.ufEudhqcR6ZhL4bPb8LTxKYxAtZQ2N >> _j50f7Uf_DOQ- >> Received: from [173.208.43.151] by web120306.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; >> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:42:49 PST >> X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.4.20 YahooMailWebService/0.8.107.285259 >> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:42:49 -0800 (PST) >> From: Carla Fletcher <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Re: Abuse@ contacts >> To: [email protected] > > I didn't know that anybody was still keying on subject lines; our spam > filter tossed it anyways. > > ... JG > -- > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net > "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I > won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail > spam(CNN) > With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. > >
