IP: Champ.Mitchell: WARNING: Your email is vulnerable to SPAM Robots!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> To: farber () eff org, gnu () toad com
> cc: brad () eff org
> Subject: Champ.Mitchell: WARNING: Your email is vulnerable to SPAM Robots!
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:35:09 -0800
> From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
>
> The anti-spammers have no shame about using the exact service that
> they claim should be illegal.
>
> My site got three unsolicited emails, using forged return addresses,
> from ORDB today too.  They do not have permission to relay email
> through my site.  They are one of the blacklist organizations referred
> to by the long rant you sent earlier, which exist to prevent people
> who run open relays from sending or receiving email.
>
> Dec 30 13:36:11 toad sendmail[17768]: NAA17768: from=<spamtest () toad com>, 
> size=675, class=0, pri=30675, nrcpts=1, 
> msgid=<200112302136.NAA17768 () toad com>, proto=ESMTP, 
> relay=groundzero.ordb.org [62.242.0.190]
> Dec 30 13:36:13 toad sendmail[17773]: NAA17768: to=<marvin () ordb org>, 
> delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=smtp, relay=groundzero.ordb.org. 
> [62.242.0.190], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as AB1135B27F)
> Dec 30 13:36:20 toad sendmail[17780]: NAA17780: 
> from=<bitbucket2 () ordb org>, size=679, class=0, pri=30679, nrcpts=1, 
> msgid=<200112302136.NAA17780 () toad com>, proto=ESMTP, 
> relay=groundzero.ordb.org [62.242.0.190]
> Dec 30 13:36:23 toad sendmail[17782]: NAA17780: to=<marvin () ordb org>, 
> delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=smtp, relay=groundzero.ordb.org. 
> [62.242.0.190], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 6FC485B290)
> Dec 30 13:36:30 toad sendmail[17787]: NAA17787: from=<spamtest () toad com>, 
> size=675, class=0, pri=30675, nrcpts=1, 
> msgid=<200112302136.NAA17787 () toad com>, proto=ESMTP, 
> relay=groundzero.ordb.org [62.242.0.190]
> Dec 30 13:36:33 toad sendmail[17789]: NAA17787: to=<marvin () ordb org>, 
> delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=smtp, relay=groundzero.ordb.org. 
> [62.242.0.190], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 3F8B35B19B)
>
> I've also enclosed below some other spam I got today.  It's
> advertising an anti-spam service.  The 'service' offered by the site
> is a proprietary program that replaces email links in web sites with
> scrambled JavaScript programs that will send email to that address --
> if the web client runs JavaScript, which would be foolhardy of them to
> do.  If the web client is secure, then the user simply can't send
> email to the address intended by the web site author.  And, of course,
> if any method like this becomes popular, email-address harvesting
> robots will quickly learn the trick, and extract the email addresses
> anyway.
>
>         John
>
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> toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA21754 for <gnu () toad com>; Sun, 30 
> Dec 2001 07:02:58 -0800 (PST)
> Message-Id: <200112301502.HAA21754 () toad com>
> Received: from email-cloak.com (adsl-gte-la-216-86-206-133.mminternet.com 
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>         id XG8WK3YX; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:00:52 -0500
> From: Champ.Mitchell
> To: gnu () toad com
> Subject: WARNING: Your email is vulnerable to SPAM Robots!
> Reply-To: cmitchell () email-cloak com
> Date: 30 Dec 2001 07:02:31 -0800
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> Dear Email user,
>
> Your email address gnu () toad com was harvested by a SPAM robot. It got your
> address from the webpage
> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g.html
>
>
> For mor information about SPAM Robots and how you can protect yourself,
> Click Here
> http://www.email-cloak.com/default.asp?ID=392488&T=21117
>
> Sincerely,
> Champ Mitchell
> Anti-Spam Services
> http://www.email-cloak.com
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> Youre receiving this notice as a service of Email-Cloak. You or someone
> that knows your email or website address entered one or the other into our
> SPAM Robot Vulnerability Tester. It crawls the sites and emails all the
> addresses that it finds this message, to notify them that ANY Robot even
> Hostile SPAM robots could get their email address.
>
> To be excluded from future safety scans, click here
> http://www.email-cloak.com/remove.asp?ID=392488&T=21117
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> Dear Email user,
>
> Your email address gnu () toad com was harvested by a SPAM robot. It got your 
> address from the webpage http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g.html
>
>
> For mor information about SPAM Robots and how you can protect yourself, 
> <http://www.email-cloak.com/default.asp?ID=392488&T=21117>Click Here
>
> Sincerely,
> Champ Mitchell
> Anti-Spam Services
> <http://www.email-cloak.com/default.asp?ID=392488&T=21117>http://www.email-cloak.com
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> You’re receiving this notice as a service of Email-Cloak. You or someone 
> that knows your email or website address entered one or the other into our 
> SPAM Robot Vulnerability Tester. It crawls the sites and emails all the 
> addresses that it finds this message, to notify them that ANY Robot even 
> Hostile SPAM robots could get their email address.
>
> To be excluded from future safety scans, 
> <http://www.email-cloak.com/remove.asp?ID=392488&T=21117>click here
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