[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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