My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer

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My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @06:34AM from the you've-got-spam dept.

Freerange writes "Mike Masnick wrote up his experience getting slammed by a somewhat new kind of spam attack that doesn't get much hype (yet?). A spammer spoofed his personal email address as the 'reply-to' for a batch of spam, with interesting results for Mike: "I can now answer the questions 'who replies to spam?' and (should anyone ever wonder) 'what are the hundreds of variations on bounced messages?'" From Politech."

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What the Internet needs: by unterderbrucke · 2003-02-12 06:37 · Score: 5, Funny

A proprietary mail protocol by a major power (MS?) to eliminate IP address/e-mail address spoofing.
Skynet by OwlofCreamCheese · 2003-02-12 06:38 · Score: 5, Funny

its not going to be military computers that come alive and kill us all, its going to be the spam filters! I mean, its going to take some serious adaptive AI to filter out spam at this rate...

and the conformforting thought:

when spamfilters come alive... their prime directive will be "eliminate anything that is worthless"

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No way to contact spammer by $$$$$exyGal · 2003-02-12 06:41 · Score: 5, Funny

I am repeatedly surprised by the amount of spam out there that does not contain any way to contact the spammer. How do they expect to make money if there is no way to contact them?
--sex

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1. Re:No way to contact spammer by nomadic · 2003-02-12 06:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Volume!
Not happy... by Space_Nerd · 2003-02-12 06:41 · Score: 5, Funny

...with all the spam replies and such he got, he now decides to take it a step further and slashdot his server!

Way to go!

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Everybody has a purpose in life, maybe mine is to lurk in slashdot.
Re: Reverse spam really isn't that new... by Black+Parrot · 2003-02-12 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny

> The new one i've run into recently is they use some kinda script so that the reply-to address in my address....which makes fintering really easy becuase how often do I send mail from my account TO the same account. However I could see some stuipd user getting very confused.
...and replying to himself in outrage.

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Re:Reverse spam really isn't that new... by Greg+Hewgill · 2003-02-12 07:03 · Score: 5, Funny

That reminds me of when it was cool to tell lusers that there was this huge ftp site at 127.0.0.1, just log in with your existing account...
Re:IQ Test by shepd · 2003-02-12 08:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Which button is it???~!?//!?11

LOCK WORKSTATION, logout, shutDown, _Change Password, TaSK L1st, or Cncel?

I MUST KNWO! Give me answer! Pleez! NOW! Right NOW! PLEAEEHZ! PLEEZ!

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If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Re:IQ Test by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Duh. It's a trick question.

The *real* IQ test button is hidden on the back of your computer near the power cord.
Re:IQ Test by schon · 2003-02-12 08:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test.

Reminds me of my days as a BBS sysop..

My board forced registration before you could post anything - in the registration sign-up (before it asked for any information) I had it say "Press any key to begin. If you don't know which key is the 'any key, it's the large one on the front of your computer labeled 'reset'

Over the course of the 3 years I had it running, the logs showed two people drop carrier immediately after reading that.