I believe big@boss.com is an email virus. It harvests addresses from
various files on the computer that has been infected...
Andy Beverley
Vivek Khera wrote:
> Somehow I missed the start of this thread, but it got me thinking
> about something I've been noticing of late, which is sort of related
> to lists being sold.
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> I've been blocking a lot of spam from the sender big@boss.com on one
> of my list hosting machines. Curiously, the recipient address has
> been the uniquely-coded confirmation address for people signing up to
> lists, or for list owners to confirm their new account, or the
> VERP-type bounce address from actual message delivery.
>
> Now, since these are uniquely coded, I know who the original recipient
> was...
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> Are people selling their own address books to spammers? Outlook has
> this nasty feature of adding everything it sees to your book, so such
> addresses would show up this way.
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