DING DING DING! Exactly!
David B Funk wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jason Granat wrote:
Yeah, and here's the kicker. He personally has two separate email
accounts. One is published in every Thomas Register, trade journal,
phone book, etc... No brainer for spam there. It's also the one he
uses as his primary account. The other address is unpublished and
"rarely used", according to him, so it should receive very little or no
spam at all in his opinion. Howver (anyone surprised?), both are
getting the identical same spam at the same time, so he has concluded in
his mind that someone has either broken in to our network and
"harvested" the addresses, or someone internally (should I feel pressure
here?) is doing something fishy on purpose.
Lemee guess, he uses Outhouse or some other lluser e-mail client that automagically loads images in HTML messages.
He got a dictionary-attack spam that hit his "unpublished" address, he opened it up, the web-bugs phoned home and "published" his address for him. The scumbags then sold that address all over spammer land.
So he probably boned himself. (course getting -him- to understand that.. ;)
