Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:40:19 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Matt Lager <matt@soliddataservices.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam to list participants (from openhosting.com & softcom.com) Message-ID: <20140429114019.0eb3ce48@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <535F1667.1050406@soliddataservices.com> References: <73354.1398734218@server1.tristatelogic.com> <535F1667.1050406@soliddataservices.com>
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Hi, On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:03:03 -0700 Matt Lager <matt@soliddataservices.com> wrote: > Thanks for putting in this legwork and reporting back... I received a > few of these today after replying to a thread, and my daughter > commonly uses my computer. I was lucky to not have my E-mail sitting > open, as they all contained inappropriate pictures. I must pose the what are inappropriate pictures? > question, do these spam messages work, ever? They must for people to I do not know but I have the feeling that the spam comes from hacked Windows accounts. I never got this kind of spam via the list but only to the address I am using here. After reporting the issue to the owner of the IP used for sending the spam out, it stopped until another Windows machine got hacked. > be sending them. But what's more interesting, is my spam messages > didn't contain any links to go somewhere else, although I'm sure if I > replied, those links would be on their way. It also could be just a test for hacking Windows machine and also a test for how long they can be used. The spam as such does not make any sense except the girls really only want to find clients. I cannot imagine that this will work with e-mail addresses from a list like this. Erich
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