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Re: OT: Stupid Trader Mistakes and other Hacker Stories



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Jimmy Snowden wrote:

> I didn't even go to that site recently or ever give them information
> but I'm getting those blank emails from ??????@?????.it  I don't even
> know anyone's email address in Italy.  They only started recently and
> they are coming to both my email addresses on two different ISPs.  I
> have not had the Omega List on the second ISP for weeks now.

I have a better story.  I have a hotmail account with an eight
character name (not a word).  I only use it when traveling 
internationally.  Only my best friends know that email address.
I check it just often enough to keep it active.  It does get
some spam occasionally, so there must be some way for spammers
to grab all hotmail addresses, or they send very high volumes 
of email to randomly generated addresses @hotmail.com.  Today
it got one of the blank messages from trader2007@xxxxxxxxxx

> What do
> you suppose they are sending in those blank emails????????? 

It has an absolutely blank body.  It is clearly a massive 
spam campaign to collect a list of email addresses which 
do not bounce messages.

The better question is, what's next after the blank messages?

Rod