[SC-Help] Harvesting complainers' addresses

[anonymous poster at 66.44.68.220]

Does reporting spam through SpamCop increase the amount of spam that you receive?  I 
can now be one of the users claiming that it does.  Some spammer decided to spam my 
SpamCop address, claiming:

"You have received this newsletter because you entered the weekly $1000 draw at 
Supremecasino! If you did not submit your email address and have received this email 
in error, we apologize and ask that you remove yourself from this contest
at the link provided at the bottom of this email."

I am fairly certain that it was harvested from a complaint because I only use that 
address on my spam reports and here in the SpamCop newsgroup, where it does not 
include the full domain name.  Are the spammers getting dumber or something?  You'd 
assume that SpamCop addresses would be one of the first to be removed from spammers' 
lists.  This spam would have been better had it said that I had won $1,000 in the 
contest, but I shouldn't expect that from a spammer.  Just Hit Report (JHR).

- arogge@spamcop
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