At 03:29 AM 9/05/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Someone faked my Yahoo! email address as the sender for a SPAM/UCE
>One of my first thoughts was wondering if it just happened to be a
>coincidence that my Hotmail account received the email.
No coincidence. Some spamware sorts its addresses with a simple alphabetic
sort, so that each outgoing spam gets addressed to recipients with either
the same or adjacent user names. For example, given user names of "a" and
"b" at example.com and example.net, some spamware sorts it this way:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
More advanced spamware will sort by host then username:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The second way generates less network traffic.
Whatever way they sort it, spammers will break the list into chunks and
send each chunk a separate copy. Some spamware will pick an address from
the list of recipients as the sending address of that copy (usually either
the first or the last address in the chunk). This is almost certainly what
happened in your case - your two accounts were in the same chunk, and your
yahoo one was the last address in the chunk so it was chosen as the sending
address.
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