[DeTomaso] creepy

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And some people made fun of me when I post my e-mail address as:

Name (at) address, and tell them to substitute the @ for (at).

An e-mail scanner searches for the @ symbol.  Then if the right side meets
certain criteria, like it matches a pattern  (something.something)
It saves the whole string.  Name at something.something

So the simple solution is to use (at).  Someday the spammers will encode
this also... It is only a matter of time.

Chuck

OneStepAhead at spambastards.com





The spambot armies are doing battle.  This is a man-in-the-middle
style attack from scraped Google mailing list archive email addresses.

The 'From' field is easily spoofed on email from zombie spamming
computers to lull the recipient into opening an attachment that can
take over your machine if you don't have virus protection (and open it).

Time to anonomize email addresses in the archives that let
search engines index?

-Chris


Christopher Kimball wrote:
> I've been seeing a lot of that, too.  Not sure what's going on.
> 
> Chris
> 
>> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:05:02 -0700
>> From: adin at frontier.net
>> To: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] creepy
>>
>> there's been a lot of wacky stuff lately.
>>
>> Did we lose our virginity?
>>
>>
>> Quoting JAYTCREC at aol.com:
>>
>>> I just saw an E-mail, from my address, to the list, that I did not
send.
>>> Be careful with the "screensaver"  I have no idea what that is  about.
>>> Jay Curreri
>>>
>>>
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