As we are all well aware, spam has been around for a while. As most of us
are aware, replying to the "if you have received this message in error and
want to be removed from our lists" message at the bottom of most spam simply
allows the spammers to verify that they have a "live one"--e-mail address,
that is.
Recently I received a flood of spam, all simply offering to take my name off
their list--if I replied to it. I guess the clients of spam companies are
starting to get pickier about the quality of the lists.
However, I have also started to receive the odd message like one I got this
morning. The subject line stated that the sender saw my ad on Google. Now,
I don't advertise on Google. But then again, Google is a Web search tool,
and a lot of people are careless about differentiating between the vast
quantities of sites out there consisting solely of masses of banners, and
information sites like the ones I have up. Reading the message was no more
informative: it simply asked me to send more information.
The headers were more interesting. The message was ostensibly from someone
at referralware.net, but the "Received" lines indicated an origin at
prontomail.com.
rslade@vcn.bc.ca rslade@sprint.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca p1@canada.com
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade [Rob Slade via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 71]
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