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RE: Massive increase in spam volume?


From: "James C Slora Jr" <Jim.Slora () phra com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:36:42 -0400

A week and a half ago we had a similar massive increase for a few days.
Primary culprits in that case were, in order of prevalence:

- Dictionary attack spam using common U.S. surnames at domain dot tld
- NDRs from Russian servers from spam faking "From" gibberish at our domain
- Spammer using single random words as subjects with Bayesian poisoning in
the body
- Fake NDRs that contained only spam

All have continued at a slower pace after peaking for a few days.


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