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Re: spam volume depends on the first letter of name
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:47:13 -0800
Date sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:41:43 -0700 From: Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>
Musta been a slow news day at the register, because this research elicits the biggest, "Well... DUH" Suppose its just concrete proof of the bleedingly obvious.
I would tend to agree. The "random run" harvesting will obviously start at the beginning of the alphabet. There are, however, some possible implications for filtering. For example, my wife's account gets an awful lot of the run-of-the-mill drug spam, but almost no 419s or phish. Her name is early in the alphabet. My name is later: I get the run of the mill stuff, but much more 419 and phish. (Also significantly more malware.) So this might give us some indication of the types of address lists that various types of spammers are using. Not much, maybe, but every little bits helps ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice (1813) victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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