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["John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Evens Garde <evans.garde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have reason to believe that some of the address harvesting
> is actually the result of "inside jobs" involving packet
> sniffers/address-harvesters within the commercial routing
> infrastructure.
>
> What leads me to this conclusion?
>
> When a .mil e-mail address, which I *NEVER* used to send
> mail to anyone started receiving over 200 spam messages
> per day ... that didn't happen by accident.  Somehow, that
> address was sniffed out of e-mail which was sent to me,
> and the only email which I received on that account came
> from other .mil addresses.

Quite possible.

One also must allow for the possibility of infected Windows machines
simply harvesting email addresses directly from the user's address
book / mail folders and forwarding them to the great spammers in the
sky.  Anyone who sent you mail or had that address in their address
book or a CC mail header in their mail folders could be the source.

I also know ISP mail servers are routinely exploited by (methods
unknown to me) such that even totally non-guessable email addresses
(lsk238k2dwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) start getting mail.
These may be inside jobs.  They may be breaches.  But its happened to
me on at least 4 different occasions with three different ISPs.

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