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IP: Champ.Mitchell: WARNING: Your email is vulnerable to SPAM Robots!
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:02:50 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: toad.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocolTo: farber () eff org, gnu () toad com cc: brad () eff org Subject: Champ.Mitchell: WARNING: Your email is vulnerable to SPAM Robots! Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:35:09 -0800 From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com> The anti-spammers have no shame about using the exact service that they claim should be illegal. My site got three unsolicited emails, using forged return addresses, from ORDB today too. They do not have permission to relay email through my site. They are one of the blacklist organizations referred to by the long rant you sent earlier, which exist to prevent people who run open relays from sending or receiving email.Dec 30 13:36:11 toad sendmail[17768]: NAA17768: from=<spamtest () toad com>, size=675, class=0, pri=30675, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200112302136.NAA17768 () toad com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=groundzero.ordb.org [62.242.0.190] Dec 30 13:36:13 toad sendmail[17773]: NAA17768: to=<marvin () ordb org>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=smtp, relay=groundzero.ordb.org. [62.242.0.190], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as AB1135B27F) Dec 30 13:36:20 toad sendmail[17780]: NAA17780: from=<bitbucket2 () ordb org>, size=679, class=0, pri=30679, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200112302136.NAA17780 () toad com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=groundzero.ordb.org [62.242.0.190] Dec 30 13:36:23 toad sendmail[17782]: NAA17780: to=<marvin () ordb org>, delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=smtp, relay=groundzero.ordb.org. [62.242.0.190], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 6FC485B290) Dec 30 13:36:30 toad sendmail[17787]: NAA17787: from=<spamtest () toad com>, size=675, class=0, pri=30675, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200112302136.NAA17787 () toad com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=groundzero.ordb.org [62.242.0.190] Dec 30 13:36:33 toad sendmail[17789]: NAA17787: to=<marvin () ordb org>, delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=smtp, relay=groundzero.ordb.org. [62.242.0.190], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 3F8B35B19B)I've also enclosed below some other spam I got today. It's advertising an anti-spam service. The 'service' offered by the site is a proprietary program that replaces email links in web sites with scrambled JavaScript programs that will send email to that address -- if the web client runs JavaScript, which would be foolhardy of them to do. If the web client is secure, then the user simply can't send email to the address intended by the web site author. And, of course, if any method like this becomes popular, email-address harvesting robots will quickly learn the trick, and extract the email addresses anyway. John ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: cmitchell () email-cloak comReceived: from mail.aastra.com (mail.aastra.com [216.94.98.95]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA21754 for <gnu () toad com>; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 07:02:58 -0800 (PST)Message-Id: <200112301502.HAA21754 () toad com>Received: from email-cloak.com (adsl-gte-la-216-86-206-133.mminternet.com [216.86.206.133]) by mail.aastra.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13)id XG8WK3YX; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:00:52 -0500 From: Champ.Mitchell To: gnu () toad com Subject: WARNING: Your email is vulnerable to SPAM Robots! Reply-To: cmitchell () email-cloak com Date: 30 Dec 2001 07:02:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_dqD7qCkU_Ch4NhbKq_MA" - ------=_dqD7qCkU_Ch4NhbKq_MA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Email user, Your email address gnu () toad com was harvested by a SPAM robot. It got your address from the webpage http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g.html For mor information about SPAM Robots and how you can protect yourself, Click Here http://www.email-cloak.com/default.asp?ID=392488&T=21117 Sincerely, Champ Mitchell Anti-Spam Services http://www.email-cloak.com Youre receiving this notice as a service of Email-Cloak. You or someone that knows your email or website address entered one or the other into our SPAM Robot Vulnerability Tester. It crawls the sites and emails all the addresses that it finds this message, to notify them that ANY Robot even Hostile SPAM robots could get their email address. To be excluded from future safety scans, click here http://www.email-cloak.com/remove.asp?ID=392488&T=21117 - ------=_dqD7qCkU_Ch4NhbKq_MA Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Email user,Your email address gnu () toad com was harvested by a SPAM robot. It got your address from the webpage http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g.htmlFor mor information about SPAM Robots and how you can protect yourself, <http://www.email-cloak.com/default.asp?ID=392488&T=21117>Click HereSincerely, Champ Mitchell Anti-Spam Services <http://www.email-cloak.com/default.asp?ID=392488&T=21117>http://www.email-cloak.comYoure receiving this notice as a service of Email-Cloak. You or someone that knows your email or website address entered one or the other into our SPAM Robot Vulnerability Tester. It crawls the sites and emails all the addresses that it finds this message, to notify them that ANY Robot even Hostile SPAM robots could get their email address.To be excluded from future safety scans, <http://www.email-cloak.com/remove.asp?ID=392488&T=21117>click here- ------=_dqD7qCkU_Ch4NhbKq_MA-- ------- End of Forwarded Message
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