Re: [OT] Verification required?
Re: [OT] Verification required?
- Subject: Re: [OT] Verification required?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:17:56 -0600
On 12/28/03 11:46 PM, "Graff" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Which of those card services have "re-used" your email address?
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> Or are you only guessing?
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I only have anecdotal evidence but I used to have an e-mail account
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which was getting no spam at all. Then one day someone sent me a
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e-card from one of the services, I forget which service but it wasn't a
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major one like Hallmark.com - it was a smaller outfit. I clicked on
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the link given in the e-mail to view the card and within a day or two I
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began to get dozens of spam e-mails a day in the account. I hadn't
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used the account for any new companies and that was pretty much the
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only action that I had taken concerning the e-mail account. I have
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heard similar accounts from other people so I figured better safe than
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sorry.
You're assuming a lot. The majority of spammers are automated, to the point
that they simply generate names and email addresses at a furious clip and
fire away. It's pretty simple, and very fast.
john
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