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Spammers Using Legit Reply-To Emails
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posted by scubacuda
on Sunday June 01, @11:43PM
from the <B>Cl<!I>i<!D>ck-h<!H>er<!J>e<!R> dept.
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Another reason to NEVER respond to spam: spammers are using known good e-mails as reply-to addresses. (Probably the most well known forged return address involved Tracy LaQuey Parker, then owner of Flowers.com. The flood shut down her ISP for half a day, hurting her business, as people believed Parker's business was responsible.) Says Andrew Barrett, executive director of the SpamCon Foundation:"Most of the recent generation of ratware [spamming software] will randomly insert addresses off the list as the purported sender. [This technique] flies under the radar because it avoids sending [all of the] bounces to a single domain."
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And don't forget spammed promotion of unknowing websites.
I've been seeing, as the stigma against spam grows, that the best way to knock someone off the net is to just spam ADVERTISING their site. A quick 50-100k messages and you'll have a ton of idiots who think they know what they're doing beating down some poor guys ISP demanding he's shut down.
The poor ISP, being a kid of 14 is very likely these days, gets scared and shuts down the site for safety precautions. Site owner's hosed.
Every thinks that the person mentioned in the spam in the beneficiary of the spam, and that's not necessarily the truth.
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