Perry E. Metzger writes:
> have been significant academic studies of the market, and they
> indicate that your portrayal isn't accurate.
I was incautious; "smart" spammers go back at least to Canter and
Siegel. What I should have written was "spammers are greedy, but many
aren't too smart."
I
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:48:49 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull"
wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger writes:
>
> > BTW, I don't quite understand this. Why would splatting random
> > addresses at you help them? Why not just pick real addresses they
> > control? Successfully subscribing is easy, and generating
>
Larry Finch writes:
> DMARC helped briefly, but spammers and phishers have already found
> ways to defeat it. I have seen a surge in AOL-based phishing this
> week. They simply use the AOL screen name in the comment in the
> FROM field with a non-AOL address. As most mail clients don't
> disp
> On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:44 PM, "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
>
>
> spoofing of AOL addresses ballooned to about 5X the volume preceding
> the attack, and presumably all of the new spoof messages were targeted
> to acquaintences since the attackers are known to have obtained
> millions of AOL
