On Sat April 14 2007 11:50, Shwaine wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Richard Harke wrote: > > I find this rather alarming as I doubt if the sender is a friend. > > I also don't know where they got the info as I never post such info > > in public forums. I'm wondering if my ISP could have suffered a > > breakin as that seems the most likely to tie together all the elements. > > Do you have a listed phone number? Own a home? You already said you've got > a wife, so that means you have a marriage certificate. There's all sorts > of info like your address and wife's name available in the good old public > records. Doesn't cost the spammers much to do a public records query > (phone records are freely available online and public record searches > usually have only nominal fees). The dividends they reap by getting your > attention far outweighs the costs in most cases. >
> As for tracking where the email actually came from, the body is worthless. > Look at the envelope/headers (different terms for the same thing depending > on which email program you use). That will show you the path the email > took (which email servers it went through) to get to you. Won't nail down > the sender, but will at least give you a better starting point that the > body. Unless the originator is an open relay, then it's rather pointless > too. I looked at the headers and didn't learn much. They all came from different domains, presumably as part of a botnet. Richard _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
