[Mishmash] Is it working?

[Richard Barth]

At 05:09 AM 7/20/2006, you wrote:
>Your probably right . . . you just have to wonder how so many people 
>can do the same dumb thing at the same time  . . . must have 50 
>messages about the same crap in the same day.

It's probably robot-generated.  A lot of machines have been taken 
over by malware and converted into spam-generating robots,  You may 
just be seeing the results of the latest piece of spam
being fed to hundreds of 'bots at the same time.

>The latest seems to be to re-finance my mortgage . . . all sort of 
>stuff about lowering my interest, and both me and my house being 
>pre-approved. Some even say how much i can lower my payments each month.
>
>Only problem? Don't have a mortgage.

That's a problem lots of people would like to have.  :-)

Dick

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Barth <w3hwn at comcast.net>
>Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:54 pm
>Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Is it working?
>
> > There is probably no technical solution to the spam problem.  As
> > soon
> > as the white hats
> > figure out a new approach, the black hats find a way around it.  I
> > get a pile of stuff
> > every day that's marked [SPAM]  in the subject line by my ISP; my
> > software filters toss
> > it in the junk pile, along with some of the things my own filters
> > manage to trap.  All
> > in all, they probably manage to toss a bit over half of it without
> > it
> > ending up in my IN
> > box for manual elimination.
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > At 07:55 AM 7/19/2006, you wrote:
> > >I'm on . . . but the spam level is up everywhere! I have multiple
> > >accounts behind different firewalls through different isp's . . .
> > >all are getting hit at a high rate . . . expecially crap for
> > penny stock.
> > >
> > >Hugh
> >
> > Richard Barth *** W3HWN at ARRL.NET *** Silver Spring, MD
> >
> >
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Richard Barth *** W3HWN at ARRL.NET *** Silver Spring, MD