spam in a bling copy
From: aa (aa_at_virgin.net)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:36:02 +0100
I do consultancy for a company which set up a company email address for me
like MyName@CompanyName.com on their server. As I work from home and
connecting to the Company's network is not easy, that address was set up to
divert all the incoming messages to my private address. I have never used
this address for outgoing messages.
Recently I've got the following message from a Company's employee:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Some weeks ago, I started to receive e-mails which were addressed to you and
for which I was a blind copy. The emails had, embedded in them, particularly
disgusting content which was pornographic and purportedly mostly involved
teenage girls. The frequency of the e-mails increased to such an extent
that I was receiving them every 10 minutes. The e-mails were only ever
addressed to you and ceased almost immediately when your company address
was suspended.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Questions:
1. Althought, as I said, I do not use MyName@CompanyName.com anywhere in my
computer, I understand that a spammer could get it by chanse or by
generating.
Likewise a spammer could get my colleague's address.
What I cannot understand is how the spammer managed to get both? The first
letters in mine and in my colleague's address are far apart in the alphabet,
so it seems extremely unlikely that an address generating programme would
put them together into one e-mail.
The only explanation which comes to my mind is that the spammer is somehow
associated with the Comapny.
What other explanations can be offered?
2. If emails are sent out by a spammer to my address and a blind copy to
another address, is it possible that suspension of my address can stop the
blind copy to arrive to the other address?
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