Re: New dictionary spamming method -- SOLVED!

2005-05-31 Thread Kelson
Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Looks like some particularly inept spammer is grabbing partial Message-IDs from the headers of messages on this list and trying to send email to them as though they were email addresses. Sad, really. We occasionally get mail sent to *full* message-IDs. A nice demon

Re: New dictionary spamming method -- SOLVED!

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Looks like some particularly inept spammer is grabbing partial Message-IDs from the headers of messages on this list and trying to send email to them as though they were email addresses. Sad, really. Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: I've noticed recently in my MTA logs a growing trend of attempts t

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Rick van Vliet
Steven Stern said the following on 5/30/2005 12:11 PM: Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Steven Stern wrote: I got a similar bunch of messages (approx 250) between 6:05 and 6:15 CDT, from about 10 unique IP addresses, yesterday and today, but on only one of my 3 MX servers. Interesting. For me, they

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Steven Stern wrote: I got a similar bunch of messages (approx 250) between 6:05 and 6:15 CDT, from about 10 unique IP addresses, yesterday and today, but on only one of my 3 MX servers. Interesting. For me, they started May 28th at almost exactly noon EDT.I'm alm

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Steven Stern wrote: I got a similar bunch of messages (approx 250) between 6:05 and 6:15 CDT, from about 10 unique IP addresses, yesterday and today, but on only one of my 3 MX servers. Interesting. For me, they started May 28th at almost exactly noon EDT.I'm almost tempted to let a coupl

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: I've noticed recently in my MTA logs a growing trend of attempts to send email to numbered email addresses, such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone have any ideas why spammers would be

New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
I've noticed recently in my MTA logs a growing trend of attempts to send email to numbered email addresses, such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone have any ideas why spammers would be trying this particular tac