Re: [exim] Anti Phishing Trick

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Marc Sherman wrote:

> Marilyn Davis wrote:
> >
> > Could you trace it to any entity at all?
> >
> > Could you tell if it was advertising spam?
>
> All the joe jobs I've ever been hit by were virus outbreaks -- the virus
> bots are replicating themselves indiscriminately around the internet,
> sending mail with fake From: addresses, which sometime claim to be my
> own (or those of other users on my server).

Yes. Virus. Of course.

>
> The most recent case was the neo-nazi virus outbreak earlier this year
> (sober.q, I think it was called) -- I got a lot of bounces of those
> messages apparently purportedly being sent "From:" my address. From
> what I read on the net, that virus was primarily faking the addresses of
> "prominent open source coders and advocates", so I felt pretty good
> about that (after I got over the initial horror of reading some of the
> messages I'd supposedly sent). I wouldn't be surprised if, in that
> instance, my address had been harvested from this very list.
>
> I doubt those sender addresses were chosen as an attack on the owners;
> rather, they were probably chosen to take advantage of any positive AWL
> scores attached to those addresses.

Yes. Political.

Very interesting. Thank you.

I guess, so far, my proposed point stands: Joe Job's are not about
advertising spam. That would be counter-productive for an advertiser.

Marilyn

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> - Marc
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