PermaLink From the logs...
The following is a partial list of users here who have recently "opted in" to receive unmissable Internet offers. That is, it is a list of local addresses here (username part only; domains have been omitted) to which outsiders have unsuccessfully attempted to deliver email in the past month.

Each such attempt has been met with "550 - no such user" on the very simple grounds that these users do not exist here and never have! All are now aliases to our spamtraps.

I wonder how many CDs containing millions of "fresh double opt in email addresses" have been sold including this garbage...

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Category: Spam miscellany
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Comments :

1. Maria Helm26/03/2004 21:29:44


OMG!! We have the exact same userlist! All those people "supposedly" opted in on our servers, too. Do you suppose that all of them work both places?? LOL!

Honestly, the first few times I saw this stuff come through I thought the spammers had come up with a random-letter email address generator. You know...a@~.com, aa@~.com ...through ...zzzzz@~.com
(Maybe they have that as well.)

I'm convinced that spammers don't actually make money selling the products. They only make money selling the software to people who think they'll make money selling spam. (Can we say MLM??)




2. gus-18/04/2004 20:40:38


I have the same alias list.. I guess those are hardcoded values in crappy spam-o-tronic programs to hit catchalls..




3. Chris Linfoot19/04/2004 08:19:34


New theory, building on both of the above comments -

Not a spam-o-tronic program, but a virus/worm? Certainly these coincide with a large increase in worm activity here.




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