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Re[2]: OT: Stupid Trader Mistakes and other Hacker Stories


  • To: "J. Rodney Grisham" <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re[2]: OT: Stupid Trader Mistakes and other Hacker Stories
  • From: Jimmy Snowden <jhsnowden@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:25:10 -0700

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Rod,

Exactly my worry.

So I don't remember seeing a post from you in a long time.  Maybe I'm
wrong.

Jimmy

Friday, July 25, 2003, 5:44:41 PM, you wrote:

JRG> 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.

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

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

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

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

JRG> Rod




-- 
Best regards,
  Jimmy Snowden 
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx