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Re: [Asrg] 2a. Analysis - Address Harvesting - Chain Letters

2003-09-02 21:07:36
At 2/9/2003 15:16 Tuesday, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
This CNN article (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/01/spam.chainletter/index.html) discusses a possible tactic used by spammers to collect email addresses - chain letters.

... and then there was the hope that all the mails with the valuable address information "somehow" comes back to the spammer, right?

IMHO this theory is totaly unreasonable - when the spammer is not included in the replies, there is not much hope that they will ever receive these mails. Except, of course, when they are caught off a mailserver.

Or am I missing something here?

Cheers
Andreas

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