Spamming of NANOG list members

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I am getting several a day as well as ugly MS Word based trojan\.

They come to me from all over the world with the subject line:

"NANOG Payment Remittance Advice"

I agree with Niels, someone or some spamming outfit is burning

through quite a bit of stolen credentials\.

Richard Golodner

Infratection
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It's Emotet (again).

Cheers,

- ferg

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Intriguing.

I've not yet received a single one.

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There are also variants of it with subjects like

" Ref Id: %VARIABLE% "
and
"%Domain.tld% Ref Id: %VARIABLE% "

And as Bryan said, we are increasingly getting more and more as well.

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M. Omer GOLGELI wrote:

There are also variants of it with subjects like

" Ref Id: %VARIABLE% "

and

"%Domain.tld% Ref Id: %VARIABLE% "

And as Bryan said, we are increasingly getting more and more as well.

I wonder if this crap corresponds positively with the price of Bitcoin.

– S.C.

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* sc@ottie.org (Scott Christopher) [Sat 01 Jun 2019, 12:04 CEST]:

I wonder if this crap corresponds positively with the price of Bitcoin.

Only speculation (read: market manipulation) by holders of massive amounts of bitcoin drives the price of cryptocurrencies: Number go down — the single trade that crashed Bitcoin – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

  -- Niels.

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See this as well today

But gmail auto trashed it :slight_smile:

Col

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WARNING: I AM ABOUT TO PONTIFICATE!

Many of the lists etc I'm on get spamt and that's followed by a stream
of "we're getting spamt!" (either directly or scraped) agonizing, over
and over.

I've been involved in the spam problems since before some of you were
bornt (ok I'll stop with the stupid past participles), late 90s, and
the net since the 1970s.

Instead of this non-stop quarter century of agonizing maybe it's high
time to admit failure, that we designed a system which is subject to
spam and that was a mistake, a big mistake.

I know, where's the FUSSP, the proposal, so you can shoot it down?

I won't do that, not here.

But I do think we need, and have needed for a couple of decades, some
sort of radical rethink.

Times have changed, ideas which were not practical 20 years ago are
perhaps possible today due to, if nothing else, cheaper, faster
hardware and networks etc.

I guess I'm an idealist but I also get a little sick of the endless
cycle of complaining, agonizing, and assertions that everything has
been tried and nothing can help which mostly amount to we like/hate
email just as it is.

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There’s little doubt that this thread has caused an order of magnitude more messages in people’s inboxes than the SPAM they’re talking about.