RE: [SLUG] Wierd spam

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2006 - 19:17:39 EDT


On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 13:15 -0400, Ken Elliott wrote:
> >> >> As a means of verifying delivery for his "$BIGNUM CONFIRMED
> addresses!" CD?
>
> >> So kontact automatically opens it and sends back "We have a live one and
> I get included in yet another spam list?
>
> No. He's checking to see if it bounces. So what we need in this case, is a
> program that sends a fake non-delivery message. It needs to look different
> than a reply that you would send.

kmail can do this, but not Evolution, which kills me. Why not Evolution?

Russell

>
> Ken Elliott
>
> =====================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Joe Brandt
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:08 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Wierd spam
>
> On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:25, Eben King wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Joe Brandt wrote:
> > > I have been getting (for a while now) e-mails with complete
> > > gibberish in the body or no body at all. What is the reason some
> > > spammer would send this? They are not selling anything and are no
> > > attachments. It does not make sense to me.
> >
> > As a means of verifying delivery for his "$BIGNUM CONFIRMED addresses!"
> CD?
>
> So kontact automatically opens it and sends back "We have a live one and I
> get included in yet another spam list?
>
> --
> Joe Brandt
> 100% Microsoft Free and Loving it!!
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