Re: Re: SPAM with a PGP signature?

[jm () jmason org (Justin Mason)]

Jedi/Sector One writes:
>  Speaking of spammers, I just received a spam whoose recipient was
> minidentd () openbsd c9x org . What's wrong with it? Nothing except that this
> has never been a real mail address and I've never filled any form with
> anything similar.
>
>  The host name is the reverse DNS name assigned to the IP of my gateway.
>  "minidentd" is a generic fake user name sent by my identd server and
> nothing else.
>
>  It looks like spammers are always experimenting new silly ways of guessing
> valid email addresses.

btw it's unlikely this is picked up from an ident scanner -- IMO, more
likely an MTA somewhere did an ident lookup, put it in the Received
headers, and that got archived somewhere on the web where a spambot
then picked it up.

--j.
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