[ale] Slick Deals APC UPS

[ctcrreho at opm.gov (Hogg, Russell E)]

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Russ



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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Rickman [mailto:jonathan at xcorps.net] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:14 AM
To: Jim
Cc: jwl at sgi.com; Ale
Subject: Re: [ale] Warning - spamed on Bellsouth.net


On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Jim wrote:


> Spammers don't get all e-mail addresses from the Internet. Many of them now
> use a technique for creating likely e-mail addresses. I get some spam sent to
> my e-mail address and a bunch of similar combinations. As you can see, my
> e-mail address is based on my name and it doesn't take too much logic to
> deduce similar e-mail addresses. So, if your BellSouth e-mail address was
> similarly based on your name, the spammer's software prbably just guessed it.


I can confirm this behavior without a doubt. I have a catch all mail
account for xcorps.net that gets all mail that is sent to non-existent
xcorps.net addresses in case someone has a spelling problem, doesn't have
contact info, etc. One day, about a month ago, I got 943 copies of the
same message, addressed to different recipients. Needless to say, an abuse
report with that much evidence gets escalated quickly.


--
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net



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