Spammers using my sf.net address

Purdy on 2003-12-12T13:31:27

Lovely ... now spammers are using my sourceforge.net address as the from:

Received: from mailfilter.gp.uci.net [216.104.64.50] by mail.rvi.net (SMTPD32-8.03) id A636AFE100B8; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:27:50 -0800 Received: (qmail 7043 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2003 12:22:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO microsoft.com) (61.172.65.47) by mailfilter.gp.uci.net with SMTP; 12 Dec 2003 12:22:46 -0000 Received: from bucket.ualr.edu [187.37.116.148] by foodfight.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECFBAA7E4B8 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:26:21 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:26:21 +0000 From: jwpurdy@nospam.users.sourceforge.net Subject: Butch, Hilton's Paris totally free now!!! acEQyh6L2mBcCtv6Uetw1BV5PBgbiTEt To: Butch <butch@nospam.adninternet.com> References: <FC7BF6A2AA7D549F@adninternet.com> In-Reply-To: <FC7BF6A2AA7D549F@adninternet.com> Message-ID: <5FD2E8C80ACB2661@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

In other (& local) news, a Raleigh man was arrested for sending spam and faces up to 20 years in prison!

Also, did anyone notice I was two degrees of separation away from a /. story? The column referenced my earlier work posted here. Very cool! I was halfway reading through the column and saying to myself, "Hey, I went through that too!" I'm just glad I went through that experience when I did - it looks like the spammers have evolved greatly since then, compiling their tool into binary, etc. I'm not sure I would have been able to track it down as easily as I did and as thoroughly as Mr. Berrueta did.

Peace,

Jason