Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:13:17PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Not always.  Many spammers have started to harvest not just
> > single email addresses, but from/to address PAIRS.
>
> Look on the bright side: it costs spammers a lot more this way.

This is one of the reasons why spammers are depending less on
open relays and more on open proxies and cracked boxes nowadays.

Some spammers have even spread around worms to automatically open
up root (well, Admini~r) holes on machines, or just installing
programs to automagically spread their spam.

> Has anyone seen this in the wild?

Yes. I've already gotten spam "from":
- myself, various addresses (ha, but I'm not going to blacklist me)
- bill davidson
- stephen tweedie
- ben lahaise
- various other lkml inhabitants


regards,

Rik
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