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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
So how the fuck did we end up with the same spam, wiseguy?
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i'm not a spammer but i think i can answer that for you..
When the internet and email spam first began there werent as many email adress so it was kind of mandatory you had a list.. as more and more people got email addys it was easier just to assume and address existied such as
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] , obviously this method into to tricky simply get a baby name list and add @popularemailprovider.com tot he end of them. bam you have a huge email address.. this progressed of course into
[email protected] so the spammer send an email to
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] etc for every exisiting domain.. now this is all fed from a list of keywords associated with common email prefixes.. now in order to have a really good list you will cross reference existing email addy's ytou have harvested into common prefixes.. so for example , if the program spots 5 identical prefixes such as XXXCASH at different domains it can assume this is a commonly used prefix , thus anyone with xxxcash@anydomain is likely to have gotten the same message..
Now of course all above is pure speculation , it could be internal as well but theres a high likelyhood what i mentioned above is happening as the prefix XXXCASH isnt impossibly unique as
[email protected]