On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Evens Garde <evans.garde@gmail.com> 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@somedomain.com) 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. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org