On Sat, 31 May 2003, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Terry writes:
At least one of them is a combination of letters
and numbers that I would have expected to
resist most dictionary spam attacks.
To whom have you sent e-mail from that address?
In several cases, *no* one. That is, these were test accounts I set
up for my own purposes and had never used to communicate with others.
If they didn't use a dictionary attack, and they didn't harvest the address,
how did they get it?
Beats me. Perhaps a more sophisticated dictionary attack than I would
have expected. Or maybe the ISPs sold them. Or got hacked. Who
knows? I'm just reporting that it is happening, and routinely. I
hear from enough other people of similar experiences to know that this
is not an isolated phenomenon.
-teg