Has anyone else received this? Is it legit or is it yet another dishonest
attempt by spammers to improve the quality of their mailing lists? I very
much suspect the former as I doubt that spammers pay much attention to
"remove" lists.
--Vince
Vince Fuller writes:
Has anyone else received this? Is it legit or is it yet another dishonest
attempt by spammers to improve the quality of their mailing lists? I very
much suspect the former as I doubt that spammers pay much attention to
"remove" lists.
Seems to me that the spammers might hage caught on to the "GOOD TIMES"
vehicle of e-mail distribution. It's easier and more effective to get
users to spam each other than it is to spam the users directly.
Firstly, it gets through most filtering schemes (except for body-content
filtering). Secondly it would get better readership, since it ends up
with a "friends" e-mail address in the "From:" header, and thirdly, it
is cheap. Social Engineering attacks at their ugliest.
My guess is (and I have no substantiation for this at all), is that they
are going to compile a great big list of users from the replies to the
"REMOVE" list, and then try to sell it to every spammer who's mail is
forwarded to the "Blacklist". Of course, this particular effort may be
legitimate, but it would be an interesting next step for the spammers.
[ let's move this to spam-list@psc.edu ]
-SteveK
Has anyone else received this? Is it legit or is it yet another dishonest
attempt by spammers to improve the quality of their mailing lists? I very
much suspect the former as I doubt that spammers pay much attention to
"remove" lists.
At best, it's some guy who thinks he can come up with a list and
the spammers will follow it. At worst, it's a shill for Sanford Wallace
trying to retaliate against "the anti-spammers" for getting hacked.
More details in news.admin.net-abuse.email and .misc, I'm sure.
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