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.
Eric
