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My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Interesting link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's an article from MS explaining address spoofing in some detail.