[ale] OT: Latest "sneaky" spam technique

Benjamin Scherrey scherrey at proteus-tech.com
Wed Oct 9 15:56:20 EDT 2002


10/9/2002 2:43:30 PM, Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com> wrote:
>  Ok, now this one is just plain tricky here.  I just received an email from
>  some girl that I don't know.  The message reads, "here are some pics of
>  dakota" and the Subject line is just:  pics.
>
>  Attached to message are a bunch of legimitate baby pictures.
>
>  My first reaction was to kindly reply and let her know that it appears that
>  she's sent an email to me by mistake.  BUT THEN IT OCCURED TO ME.  This is
>  just the latest, downright deceptive way to harvest email addresses.  After
>  careful review, I've come to the conclusion that this is genuine SPAM at
>  it's nastiest.  I've forwarded the baby pictures along for kicks.  If anyone
>  else out there has gotten this one, please let me know.

Teaching the lil'bastards early those spammers! Damn them!

	Ben     




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