05-05-2002, 07:54 PM
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There can be only one
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Originally posted by CDSmith
I'll make this as brief as possible. I have been receiving far more spam than usual lately, and most of it seems to be from the same source, using the same methods. Each spam is from a different email account, each one has a different subject, all of them contain some sort of .exe file or html file coupled with an image file or .pdf etc etc, some of them have no text in the message body, and some have a short amount of text like "<i>Here is a fine website that I hope you would enjoy it</i>" with a link, or something to that effect.
Here's the kicker......
some of the email addresses used by this asshole are OURS.... yours and mine both. I got one supposedly from Mick Bake the other day, and there's now way it was actually from him. I got one from another guy named Rob who runs a bunch of pay sites, and I even got one from one of <i>my own email addy's</i>, so I KNOW that this is what's happening. So I emailed this Rob guy, I looked up the email properties, saw the domain name and went to the site. I found an email address there (admin@____.com or webmaster@_____.com, I didn't want to use the return address of the original spam), and I sent them a nasty email about this Rob guy.
The thing is, Rob <i>himself</i> emailed me back and asked what I was talking about. I then figured it out.... someone is using many of our email addresses somehow for spamming puposes. Rob is actually a pretty good guy, and he's out for blood now. Spammer blood. So, could sexymail be just another victim of this unknown spamming asshole? No really, could it be possible? If your answer is "yes" or "maybe", then maybe we should relax here and talk about what to do about the real fuckwad spammer. It's very hard to program your spam blocking to filter this guy, because he's using other people's addresses and he's keeping his text to a minimum and it changes constantly. I get hit with his shit at least 20-30 times per day right now. I have no idea what the guy is trying to accomplish, I just don't buy shit from spam. Nada. Zip.
Thoughts?
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that was brief? 
I'd hate to see when you go on a rant...... |
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