* Chris Santerre wrote (20/10/06 15:30): > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Psst! >> >> >> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: >> >> > Another thing I've been noticing recently.. some idiot has >> been culling >> > the web archives of mailing lists, and is trying to send >> spam emails to >> > MESSAGE ID's of posts I've made. Check your mail logs! >> > >> > One or more of those would make a great spamtrap. >> >> Actually this kind of thing has been going on for some time. I still >> occasionally see spam sent to a Message-ID address derived from >> a machine that died years ago. The last owner of it was an active >> Usenet poster and is probably in all kinds of news archives. > > Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with > the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers > figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for > them...they do not. :)
Loads. Also with a variety of other manglings. One local part is dwoodhouse, and some rejected variations are: 8jwoodhouse 8odhouse dhouse oodhouse woodhousejwoodhouse ydoodhouse I can't see why they bother. Or maybe the address harvester is broken.
