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Re: Address Book scripting --- SPAM ALERT
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Re: Address Book scripting --- SPAM ALERT


  • Subject: Re: Address Book scripting --- SPAM ALERT
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:54:26 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Address Book scripting --- SPAM ALERT

Entity Bernardo Hoehl spoke thus:

> Dear Gnarlie,
>
>
> Please apologise me again for sending you my email.
>
> But what you are saying is impossible.
>
> My mailing routine accesses the Postfix Mailing Daemon in Unix, and
> uses  a written file. So, there is no cc'ds addresses on the email.
> Just check the full source on the email I sent you by selecting the
> message o Mail.app
I don't even have a Mail.app on my machine.

So, I can't prove that my email address was compromised by your script, but
as you can see just the suspicion will cause people to start yelling. Even
when I received your Portuguese mails I immediately assumed they were from a
real spammer, not some Brazilian with an Applescript. So unless you want to
start making enemies, be very careful with people's personal information.

And don't use us as a test group for your script.

-- Gnarlie


>  and pressing command + option + u you will see that
> the source is clean from other addresses.
>
> There is NO CHANCE that I caused you to receive SPAM.
>
> If I can be of any help, please say so.
>
> I am so sorry.
>
>
> Bernardo
>
> ------------------------
> On 27 Dec, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
>
>> Since Bernardo began scripting emails I have suddenly began receiving
>> spam
>> on my 2 email accounts. It seems very likely to me that Bernardo has
>> compromised my email address(es).
>>
>> These emails have subject lines like:
>>
>> february 12-16, 2006: quality assurance and management
>> january 15-17, 2006: healthcare service management for manufacturing
>> and
>> service companies
>>
>> healthcare service management <email@hidden>
>> Reply-To: email@hidden
>> To: email@hidden
>>
>> Bernardo has apologized for the spam originating from his company, but
>> it
>> looks like another recipient has harvested my address from his mass
>> mailing.
>> Has anyone else received these spams?  I was in his address book, only
>> those
>> who personally helped him with scripts would have the honor of being
>> spammed.
>> Even if Bernardo had no intention to compromise anyone's personal
>> information it is all to easy to make a mistake with scripting.
>> Spammers
>> routinely harvest all cc'd addresses from emailed to add to their list
>> of
>> recipients, that is probably what happened to me.
>>
>> I also must take the opportunity to berate "has". On every scripting
>> forum I
>> participate in the requests to script email sending are treated with
>> the
>> utmost suspicion. This is exactly why.
>>
>> -- Gnarlie
>>
>>
>> Entity Bernardo Hoehl spoke thus:
>>
>>> Thanks Has!
>>>
>>>
>>> That looks much better!
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>>
>>> Bernardo
>>>
>>> ==============
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 Dec, 2005, at 5:35 PM, has wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bernardo Hoehl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have come up with this script to extract every email address from
>>>>> my address book, and it looks to me a a good monster example. (see
>>>>> the script at the end of this)
>>>>>
>>>>> Although it seems to work, it looks very weird to me. Could you
>>>>> folks
>>>>> send me your comments on how to make it simpler?
>>>>
>>>> set res to {}
>>>> tell application "Address Book" to set lst to value of every email of
>>>> every person
>>>> repeat with subListRef in lst
>>>> repeat with emailRef in subListRef
>>>> if emailRef's contents is not in res then set end of res to
>>>> emailRef's contents
>>>> end repeat
>>>> end repeat
>>>> res
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> has
>>>> --
>>>> http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/
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