I used my work cell, which has no relationship to any of this. We aren't talking about legitimate email from these companies, we are talking about unsolicited emails.
There is a level of spam that you expect but in this case I can effectively say that every item in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] box is spam. That's all I was trying to say. You seem to be defending the fact that there might be real email destined for this account. BTW, these accounts are setup methodically for the purposes of trapping spam. And yes, I have used all types of phone numbers for these things (as mentioned off list). I've been around this list for some years now so this really isn't a noob scenario. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > Gary W. Smith wrote: > > Well, LT (lending tree) seemed to be the one selling people the > > information. When I received calls from these people from the mortgages > > they mostly bought their hot leads from LT. > > Unless you used a different contact phone number than the one listed on > your mortgage public records, you can't be sure that LT is behind this. > > > When I did a couple lookups > > I found that in some cases the URL's for the mortgage spams (which are > > what I received a lot of) had the same technical contact email as LT. > > This isn't solid proof they are behind that batch of bulk spams that I > > still receive to this day but it doesn't help disprove. > > Here's the thing. I have multiple mortgages, and I get tons of mortgage > spam. Legitimate (5-10 pieces of postal mail PER DAY) and illegitimate. > > I've never dealt with Lending Tree, and I never see Lending Tree spam. > *NEVER* is pretty relevant here, because I deal with spam EVERY DAY. > It's my day job too :-) > > That said, a friend of mine did sign up for Lending Tree and used their > service, and now gets spam to that address constantly. But when you > send mail to a mailing list of unknown recipients ... > > -- > Jo Rhett > Network/Software Engineer > Net Consonance
