Re: New Spam Trick

[WS Mendler <wmendler -at- PTDPROLOG -dot- NET>]

There's another one I've noticed -- you receive a message that is
apparently part of a conversation between two other people, and just
*happens* to include the URL for "that weight-loss product you asked me
about"...

Tricky stuff.  Hey, how about we adapt the technique -- make manuals into
sets of e-mails, mailed out to users at irregular intervals... (just
kidding)

//skip

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Betty Guthrie wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 13:41:42 -0600
> From: Betty Guthrie <bguthrie -at- PROMUS -dot- COM>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: New Spam Trick
>
> There's another new spam trick I've recently fallen for -- but only
> once!  The subject line was "I found you!"
>
> Naturally, I thought it was some long-lost friend who'd been looking for
> me online.  Nope.  Pure, undiluted spam.
>
> Betty Champagne Guthrie
>
> >----------
> >From:  Joe Miller[SMTP:joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM]
> >Sent:  Wednesday, November 12, 1997 1:36 PM
> >To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> >Subject:       New Spam Trick
> >
> >I start a message session by going through all listserv
> >messages, deleting those I don't want to read.  This,
> >obviously, includes messages headed "Make $10,000,000
> >in just 2.65 seconds with my amazing...".   But just now, I
> >received a message with no subject and naturally, I started
> >to read it.  Yech!  Spam!
> >
> >The obvious defense is to dump messages with no subject.
> >Not a problem until I realized that some of us occasionally
> >forget to include a subject.  Please help me, and all of us,
> >by remembering to include a subject so I'll have a chance
> >to read your message.
> >
> >--Joe
> >joemiller -at- canberra -dot- com
> >
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WS (Skip) Mendler  wmendler -at- cornetltd -dot- com
Documentation & Information Specialist
CorNet International, Stroudsburg PA

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