On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:48, Brett Watson wrote:
The first and foremost reason that these spam attempts have failed is
because they fail to recognise the "dash" characters as part of the email
address, and thus send to "asrg(_at_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)" rather than
"famous-asrg(_at_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)". This
Of course, no sooner do I send the message, than I receive actual spam to my
actual asrg address. Looks like it came through a cable modem account in
Israel. Selected headers follow.
Return-Path: <doiqngxol(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
Received: from [80.230.181.208] (helo=cable-181-208.inter.net.il)
by randall.nutters.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
id 1AvsBv-00014F-00
for <famous-asrg(_at_)nutters(_dot_)org>; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:06:44
+0000
Message-ID: <NMMKCQHRSTAMWELOSEIB(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
From: "Dixie Koch" <doiqngxol(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
To: famous-asrg(_at_)nutters(_dot_)org
Subject: Buy watches lennox
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:06:48 -0700
So, was this a more intelligent instance of web-scraping, or is our dear
spammer obtaining addresses via direct subscription to the list?
Regards,
TFBW
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