Re: Spam with return receipt

[Morrow Long <morrow.long () YALE EDU>]

Saw one here today.

The 'receipt' bounced back to the user who had opened the spam message
because the putative spammer's e-mail box -- to which the receipt was
being sent --  was full and not accepting email.

Morrow

On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:41:52 CDT, Roger Safian said:
> > In the last couple of days I have noticed a dramatic increase in
> > spam that has been tagged with return receipt requested.  I have
> > disabled this on my system, but have it set to notify me when a
> > message is so tagged.  I like to know who is spying on me.  ;-)
>
> Seen here as well.  My first guess was that it's an attempt to
> verify that
> the destination address is "live" - except the return receipts
> always bounce. ;)