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Re: Is anyone tracking the "Fw: New Message" joe-job spammer?


From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:45:16 -0400

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
I have 521 messages that match:
        To:             nanog*
        Subject:        new message

In the last week. Obviously that includes things like Jay’s message below, but still a lot more than 100.

It also hit outages@, and probably other places.

Of course, I’m very upset about that. After 500+ tries, they did not spoof my name once!!! Guess I’m not important 
enough. <pout>

Well, the only spoofed one poor guys email address, the body texts
were an amalgamation of various names and URLs.

-Jim P.


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