[ale] OT: anti-spam

[Kevin Krumwiede]

Klez uses addresses from its victim's address book to constuct emails
with fake "from" fields.  If someone on this list is infected with Klez,
they may have sent emails to this "NEVER SEND SPAM" person, purportedly
from Joe Knapka and me.  I thought about writing back and telling them
about Klez, but you're right, it could be a spammer trying to collect
addresses.

Krum


On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 11:06, Transam wrote:
> > I just received an unsolicited email, the content of which,
> > in its entirety, was:
> 
> > "NEVER SEND SPAM. IT IS BAD."
> 
> They will do ANYTHING to try to get you to reply, thus confirming that
> the email address is good.  Then later they either will send you the
> real spam or include you on one of those "10 million email addresses" CDs.
> 
> Don't reply to spam, ever.
> 
> Do, however, read the "Received*:" headers and send email to "abuse@" the
> sending ISP and, if there's an open mail relay, to that domain too.  There's
> a manybe 30% chance you'll get someone's account turned off that hasn't
> already been.



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