On 15/04/07, Eric J. Feldhusen <efeldhusen.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote: > For my personal email contacts I use disposable email addresses to > control spam. The result is that I have literally hundreds of email > addresses at the same domain, caught by a catch all and sorted from > there. Very effective in identifying the source(s) of spam. > > Today, I received 9 very similar spam messages to 9 different email > addresses. These addresses have absolutely nothing in common, other > than the fact that they are all in To addresses in email in my Kmail > folders. The only way that an entity would find these addresses > together would be if it had access to my ~/.kde folders, in other > words read access to my computer. On mail filters I have across 34 domains, it's pretty common to see dictionary and even random email address generation into the tens of thousands. So, email addresses like bob@xxxxxxx and steve@xxxxxxx will get spammed, you'll see sfasdfasd@xxxxxxx and sasdf43@xxxxxxxx Also, if any of those addresses have been used to send email to other people, there's a ton of windows virii that upon infecting a windows box, will scan for email addresses, then send themself to all of those addresses.
Yes, with over 400 junk emails a day (sometimes over 1000) I see lots of random words, dictionary words, wild guesses and the like. But here is how the suspicious emails of yesterday (all very, very similar) were, by hour received: 15:32:11 address of random characters that gets regular spam, was never actually used by me. 15:32:12 address that was used to mail a friend 4 years ago. Never used since, and has never received spam. 15:32:13 old address of mine that I stopped using because of large amounts of spam going to it. 15:32:15 old address of mine that I stopped using because of large amounts of spam going to it. 15:32:17 address of random characters that I've never seen before. 15:32:18 address that was last used 3 years ago on a mailing list. Gets regular spam 15:32:19 address that was used to sign up for domain parking 2 years ago. Never used since, and has never received spam. 15:32:20 address of random characters that I've never seen before. 15:32:21 address of random characters that I've never seen before. It's the 2nd and 7th ones that are very unusual. The only place those 2 addresses are in the same place are on my own computer. And neither of them have ever received spam in the past. One is 4 years retired and the other 2 years retired. Dotan Cohen http://chat-message-boards.com http://what-is-what.com/what_is/spam.html
