Re: Phishing and Spammers

[Cardoso <cardosolistas () contraditorium com>]

"hey, a valid mail address, let's forward it to my buddy Joe Spammer and
his \/|agra pills"

It almost as bad as clicking the "remove" bait some spammers post within
their messages.


On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:22:08 -0400
"Geo." <geoincidents () nls net> wrote:

G> > if you do this you are not curing the problem, rather you are making it
G> > worse. This will never stop phishers from sending emails and you will
G> > tell them that you are an active victim, so they will flood you more!
G> 
G> Why would they flood me more? It's not like you can hide your email address
G> if you use it to any extent at all. So them knowing it's active does
G> nothing. OTOH, they might not want to email someone who is likely to corrupt
G> the data they collect.
G> 
G> Geo.
G> 
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