Re: [PLUG] New, sophisticated spam approach

["Jon Bringhurst" <jon@bringhurst.org>]

Off Topic:

And here I was thinking that gopher was completely dead. Imagine my
surprise when I opened that url in firefox... :)

(The last time I used gopher was roughly in 1995?)

-Jon

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Michael Greb <mgreb@linode.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Paul L. Snyder wrote:
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>> Anyone else been seeing these?  (Two specimens included below.)
> <-->
>> Kelly Sutkamp
>> 4427 Greenbriar Road
>> Louisville, KY 40207
> <-->
>> James R. Voyles, Attorney 6006  Brownsboro Park Blvd., Suite C/
>> Louisville, KY 40207-1296  502-736-0556/FAX: 502-736-0558
>
> Interestingly both of these addresses (and phone numbers in the second
> case) match the names given.  If they really are related to spam
> though, the actual people likely have no knowledge of the messages.
> Haven't recieved any message like these that I've noticed though I
> typically don't look closely at the content of spam I receive.  I
> prefer to do origin analysis instead.  If interested, see <gopher://thegrebs.com/0/spamstats.txt
>  > or <http://thegrebs.com/spam>.  The gopher url contains more data,
> the http one has graphs though.  There are a few more reports
> available at <http://spam.thegrebs.com/> I keep meaning to either re-
> do these or include the information in one or both of the other
> urls.... perhaps a future plug presentation on the tools I wrote to
> create these is in order.
>
> Mike
>
> - --
> Michael Greb
> Linode.com
> 609-593-7103 ext 1205
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