A new technique called "Phishing" (pronounced Fishing) is being employed by Spammers. They just do the "brute force" method of emailing (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]@yahoo.com, etc) and if they don't get a bounce back, then they know that they got a valid email address, and then it goes out to the Spam lists. This has happened to all of my email addresses in the last couple of months.
Fun, eh? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Debster Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 09:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] [OT] Has anyone exoerienced a HUGE increase of Spam? I have experienced a HUGE increase in SPAM lately and I was wondering if somehow the users list has been "utilized" to facilitate that. I am not thinking that the origin is knowingliy from the administrators of this fine list -- but if this list was somehow lifted or otherwise absconded... ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
