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Thursday, July 8. 2010

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Hello,
Just to let you know that we sent to you some possible interesting informations, but it seems it has been discarded in undesired mails.
Regards.

That was the full content of an email I got today, with my email address in both To: and From: headers. It's certainly undesired email, but I just can't see why somebody would send it out. Verifying an address list to see how many bounces? Just being silly?

Posted by Adrian von Bidder in Interesting at 13:21 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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They are attempting to "untrain" any anti-spam system you have. The goal is to poision the words list. This is one of the new "Macro-SPAM" issues causing ISPs much pain.

#1 Andrew Latham (Homepage) on 2010-07-08 14:41 (Reply)

I doubt it's just being silly or funny or cute... I get my share of phishing emails of all sorts, and I'll bet it is probably more of that nature than anything else... It certainly could be a client misconfiguration, but I really doubt that too.. I've also seen a few of the "to and from me" emails in my inbox(s). Sometimes the headers show you a bit more info .....

#2 vvill on 2010-07-08 15:17 (Reply)

I got one of those too, and got interested. Turns out that they actually meant what they wrote: they did send a separate mail containing "interesting informations" (ahem), which got caught by my spamfilter. This mail is so low-profile that it will almost certainly bypass spamfilters. And it's pretty hard for a spamfilter to drop one mail based on the content of another...

#3 Wouter Verhelst on 2010-07-09 17:45 (Reply)

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