Target Spam: NY AG, Microsoft File $38M Suits http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/evidence.lasso?rokso_id=ROK2985
This sounds a lot like the guy (ring) with the heavily puncuation-obfuscated text only messages.
"The investigators also determined that the e-mail messages were developed and sent from hijacked computers belonging to a foreign government's defense ministry, others from a hospital, and still more from elementary and high schools. According to the lawsuits, the spam messages used other people's sender names, false subject lines, fake server names, inaccurate and misrepresented sender addresses, or obscured transmission paths, all in violation of New York and Washington state law."
I'm pretty sure that I was blocking over 98% of this stuff, but the volume was so immense that it showed up commonly enough, especially in my account where there are addresses on about 6 domains and listed publicly in association with hundreds of domains (registry and sites), and the crud spammers just simply hammer my account, though I don't get any contest spam (static spammers) which is the overwhelming volume that reaches my server.
Matt
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