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Date: Wed Jun  7 15:28:28 2006
From: simon at snosoft.com (Simon Smith)
Subject: Strange Emails -- What are they?

Alright,
    If this is spam/email harvesting then please explain how it is
working without any legitimate return path? I understand blasting out
bunk emails with a legit return path, but these emails have no such
path. Whats the ditty?

Michael Holstein wrote:
>> Is this just another instance of spammers fishing for legit addresses?
>> If so, then why the hell are they sending email from invalid addresses?
>> I can dig into this a lot further if I need to, but I wanted to see if
>> anyone else had any ideas about it first.  Thanks in advance!!!
>
> Yes (just spam -- address harvesting). There was some discussion about
> this exact issue yesterday over on UNISOG :
>
> http://www.dshield.org/pipermail/unisog/2006-June/
>
> /mike.


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