[JA] Re: Spam from myself!
- From: "Brian L. Johnson" <blj8@xxxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:47:44 -0600 (MDT)
On Jul 28, the bvcb@xxxxxxxx blatted out:
>I received a spam message today that appeared in my list of incoming
>messages as from me, at this Juno address!
>That's a real first, and pretty scary.
Umm, no.. That kind of spam where the To and From are the same has
been around for a while. With modern spamware using traditional
mail-merge techniques in a new way, it's fairly trivial to customize
each spam.
One (now retired) spammer related this:
"I take a list of addresses and plug it into the program. I check
options, including 'Use target address as From', then paste in the
body of the mailing. I click 'Ok', and after a bit of processing
time where it generates all of the mails, it sends them out."
He also said that with his high-speed connection, it would only take
45 minutes to send out half a million spams, including processing
time.
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