On Friday, October 29, 2004, at 03:14 PM, Alex Black wrote:
Today I received an e-mail (on my 9500/G4-700/OS9.2) that I haven't seen
before, and it's totally bogus. I know that I don't need to 'confirm' to
send an e-mail. A new kind of scam? Has anyone seen it before, and know
what it is trying to accomplish by me just hitting 'REPLY' without
changinging or adding anything to the body of the e-mail? Also,it mentions
an e-mail that I had sent him/them, that I never had. The only thing I see
in the e-mail that might be telling is the "price.com" near the end of the
message.
Well, the 'confirmation' thing is real, a truly obnoxious form of spam avoidance. It bounces back these confirmation messages for all the messages that someone gets that aren't in their whitelist.
By and large, the only thing it does is contribute to the cr*pload of junk mail floating around today, because it generates another e-mail in response to every spam; most of those are false addresses, which generate bounce messages, etc.
The second part is that some PC-user has been infected, and the spam-zomie it's been sold as is using your e-mail address as the forged 'from' address. The real originating system is listed in the headers.
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