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oldal4865 - 21 Oct 2006 19:19 GMT

I recently received this phishing attack (I hope that's all it was). I
also hope they weren't harvesting newsgroup addresses.

". . .Hi,

Medical Re-fill is ready.
Plz. reconfirm City .

http://hk.geocities.com/Wade4_p6xx

your adddress if not correct, pls. help us to corrrect it
Just check the site above to make sure all right.

Regards,

Cheri. . ."

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Trinkwasser - 23 Oct 2006 21:41 GMT

>I recently received this phishing attack (I hope that's all it was). I
>also hope they weren't harvesting newsgroup addresses.
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> your adddress if not correct, pls. help us to corrrect it
>Just check the site above to make sure all right.

Not seen this particular variant yet but I get a gazillion spams and
phishing emails to addresses I have published on usenet which is why I
no longer use live addresses.

I've recently started getting spams to an address which has ONLY ever
been published in RIPE as a contact for one of my domains.

Someone pointed out that labour in third world countries is now cheap
enough that they can use human bots to do this in addition to the
computer type. :(

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Alan S - 23 Oct 2006 22:47 GMT

>>I recently received this phishing attack (I hope that's all it was). I
>>also hope they weren't harvesting newsgroup addresses.
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>enough that they can use human bots to do this in addition to the
>computer type. :(

I get spam to addresses I've never used and never posted
anywhere:-(

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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Trinkwasser - 25 Oct 2006 19:32 GMT

>>>I recently received this phishing attack (I hope that's all it was). I
>>>also hope they weren't harvesting newsgroup addresses.
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>I get spam to addresses I've never used and never posted
>anywhere:-(

That's nothing, I get bounces for spams I never sent from addresses
I've never used. :(

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