Python spam?
Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header analysis proves they didn't send it). -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Usenet is not a democracy. It is a weird cross between an anarchy and a dictatorship. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
Aahz schrieb: > Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages > "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header > analysis proves they didn't send it). I'm getting spam not only from Barry, but also from myself ;-) with forged headers. But I'm not sure what you mean with Python-related... Not the contents, IIRC. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Aahz schrieb: >> >> Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages >> "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header >> analysis proves they didn't send it). > >I'm getting spam not only from Barry, but also from myself ;-) with >forged headers. But I'm not sure what you mean with Python-related... >Not the contents, IIRC. Thing is, I don't usually get spam "from" people I know (or at least it gets filtered before I see it), so someone is clearly using some resource of Python-related email addresses. Just seems rather odd, and I wonder whether it's some kind of DoS attack or what. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Member of the Groucho Marx Fan Club -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
[Aahz] >>> Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages >>> "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header >>> analysis proves they didn't send it). [Thomas Heller] >> I'm getting spam not only from Barry, but also from myself ;-) with >> forged headers. But I'm not sure what you mean with Python-related... >> Not the contents, IIRC. [Aahz[ > Thing is, I don't usually get spam "from" people I know (or at least it > gets filtered before I see it), so someone is clearly using some resource > of Python-related email addresses. Just seems rather odd, and I wonder > whether it's some kind of DoS attack or what. It's been going on for years. The most frequent forged "Python related" sender address I've seen is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED], followed (but not closely) by /F's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spammers harvest legit addresses to forge via scraping web pages and via Trojans scouring newbies' address books. The latter probably accounts for the very high rate of [EMAIL PROTECTED] forgeries. Via the former, anyone with a "public" email address can expect to see it get forged sooner or later. About two years ago I sent a polite email to a porn vendor asking them to please stop forging one of my email addresses as the sender of their spam. They didn't reply, but within a few days I stopped receiving porn spam claiming to come from me. Frankly, I miss it :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
"Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages > "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header > analysis proves they didn't send it). > -- not like that - just the normal crud from people giving me get rich quick tips on the stock market that is aimed at mobilising my money to follow theirs to help influence the price of a share... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
Tim Peters wrote: > It's been going on for years. The most frequent forged "Python > related" sender address I've seen is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED], > followed (but not closely) by /F's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spammers > harvest legit addresses to forge via scraping web pages and via > Trojans scouring newbies' address books. when you get this kind of "clustering" effect, chances are that it's a trojan on someone's computer that's actually sending the mails, using mail addresses found on the infected computer (address books and browser caches are good sources for this). (so in your cases, it's probably just some poor python-dev reader who hasn't updated his virus checker lately...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
aahz> Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen aahz> messages "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of aahz> course header analysis proves they didn't send it). I blacklisted Barry long ago. He's probably sending out spam in my name in retaliation. ;-) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages >> "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header >> analysis proves they didn't send it). >> -- >> > > not like that - just the normal crud from people giving me get rich quick tips > on the stock market that is aimed at mobilising my money to follow theirs to > help influence the price of a share... > > - Hendrik > > > ...which I noticed works amazingly well in many cases, looking at the charts. which, again, means that the trick isn't likely to fizzle out soon as others have with victims getting wise to it. Getting feathers plucked in this game isn't a turn-off. It's an opportunity to join the pluckers by speeding up one's turnover at the expense of the slowpokes. Like pyramid sales this it is a self-generating market. This game, at least, isn't unethical, other than clogging the internet with reckless traffic. I've been asking myself why it seems so difficult to backtrace such obtrusive, if not criminal, traffic to the source and squash it there. Perhaps some knowledgeable volunteer would share his insights. Perhaps stalking con artists could be another interest group. Frederic -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >"Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam? So far, I've seen messages >>"from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header >>analysis proves they didn't send it). >>-- >> >> > >not like that - just the normal crud from people giving me get rich quick tips >on the stock market that is aimed at mobilising my money to follow theirs to >help influence the price of a share... > >- Hendrik > > > > I'm ALWAYS getting python spam but what worries me, is the spammers Know my personal home address, and I NEVER EVER fill out any forms pages with my personal info - I think I'm being harrassed by hackers or something... John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python spam?
At Monday 4/12/2006 16:27, John Draper wrote: I'm ALWAYS getting python spam but what worries me, is the spammers Know my personal home address, and I NEVER EVER fill out any forms pages with my personal info - I think I'm being harrassed by hackers or something... - UserA creates an account on SiteA. They ask for an email address for validation purposes, or perhaps they use that email address as login name, which is fine so one doesn't have to remember another login. So, UserA fills in his Hotmail/Yahoo/whatever email. - UserA provides the *same* password on the site as used on his email address. Which is fine so one doesn't have to remember many passwords. - Now, SiteA has full access to UserA's address book (and inbox, and... but usually they're not interested on that). Notice that SiteA actually is not "hacking" UserA Hotmail account, nor is a virus involved, nothing is installed on UserA's PC, there is no vulnerability exploited on Hotmail's code, no antivirus/antispyware will help, nothing. It's just UserA silly enough to let others know his webmail password. So if a friend of yours has played the role of UserA above, that's how some spammers got your email address. -- Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 8<-- So if a friend of yours has played the role of UserA above, that's how some spammers got your email address. + 1 for euphemism of the month... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
