full-disclosure - Implications of outsourcing email

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From: mckellar at telusplanet.net (Neil McKellar)
Subject: Implications of outsourcing email

Roy S. Rapoport wrote:
> It isn't -- I mean, I agree that it's reasonable to feel that it's sketchy,
> but I'm on Best Buy's promo email list, and all my emails come from
> postfuture.  I suspect BB outsourced their mass mail operations and didn't
> quite understand the implications of sending security alerts through the
> same service.   The issue is complicated by dealing with the URLs through
> the same source (probably for link tracking).

I don't think this is quite the case.  I got one of these e-mails as 
well and I've never used Best Buy and certainly never registered with 
them.  The thing that tipped me off to view the HTML source for the 
message when I got it was that it came to a domain name that my ISP no 
longer uses.  And sure enough the links were all disguised.

I think someone's been just using a standard spammer mailing list and 
going for statistical probability.  Just like any other scam.
--
Neil (mckellar@...usplanet.net)