Microsoft Spam
 

The spam is a result of posting to the newsgroups using your real e-mail
address. I posted a car for sale on alt.autos yesterday and used my
alternate e-mail address. I received 50 spam messages supposedly from
Microsoft. I am using a Macintosh G-4 which means Microsoft would have
no reason to send me anything.

The address shown on this message is my alternate address. I change the
number in the address ever month to a different digit in a random order.

"Lynn Tegrity"

Microsoft Spam
 

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:50:59 GMT
Lynn Tegrity wrote:

The spam is a result of posting to the newsgroups using your real
e-mail address.

Baloney. This is yet another worm that mines addresses from infected
machine's address books. You just have to be unfortunate enough to be
in the address book of someone who got infected.

- Ed

Microsoft Spam
 

Ed Falis wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:50:59 GMT
Lynn Tegrity wrote:

The spam is a result of posting to the newsgroups using your real
e-mail address.

Baloney. This is yet another worm that mines addresses from infected
machine's address books. You just have to be unfortunate enough to be
in the address book of someone who got infected.

fwiw, people tell me the've seen my fake address in spams, right next to
other folks from a newsgroup. if my address is fake, has never worked,
etc, i'd say it was likely that the lists get processed down from usenet
one way or another.

Microsoft Spam
 

No has this e-mail address in their address book because I just changed
the number to 1 Sunday.

Lynn

Ed Falis wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:50:59 GMT
Lynn Tegrity wrote:


The spam is a result of posting to the newsgroups using your real
e-mail address.


Baloney. This is yet another worm that mines addresses from infected
machine's address books. You just have to be unfortunate enough to be
in the address book of someone who got infected.

- Ed

Microsoft Spam
 

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:12:13 GMT
lefty wrote:

fwiw, people tell me the've seen my fake address in spams, right next
to other folks from a newsgroup. if my address is fake, has never
worked, etc, i'd say it was likely that the lists get processed down
from usenet one way or another.

You're right, some of it is from newsgroups in addition to the address
book mining.