So is there a way to foil the spamjunkies? I mean is there no way to disrupt
the software?, e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Pray tell....
> From: "Troy Rollo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:35:24 +1000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [spamcon-general] Re: But I Didn't Send You That (Michael)
>
> 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]
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> More advanced spamware will sort by host then username:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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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