On Saturday, June 12, 2004, at 06:56 AM, Wilton Shaw wrote:
Hello,
In the last week I have received about a dozen e-mails claiming messages I sent were not deliverable. They appear to have something to do with software. Some have attachments. I know this is a new kind of scam, and I wondered if anyone else has been receiving them?
Thanks
Wilton
Everyone's been receiving them. Some rightwing German racists have utilized a large pool of zombified PC's to spam the world with some crap in German blaming all their problems on 'foreigners'. In addition, more traditional spammers are doing the same thing to sell their 'wares'. These are all PC's that have been infected with the latest versions of some PC viruses, which turn the computers into little remote-controlled spam factories.
This has resulted in a flood of mis-directed mail bounces...I got some 75-100 of the damned things in the last several days, and that was to *me*, not including the several *hundreds* I've gotten for our mail domain...
I'm about ready to start taking a baseball bat to the next infested Windows PC I see, just on general principles...
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