[IP] more on Email Scammers Try New Bait in 'Vishing' For Fresh Victims

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: John Lyon <jelyon@jelyon.com>
Date: July 31, 2006 6:01:07 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Email Scammers Try New Bait in 'Vishing'  
For Fresh Victims

Comment For IP if appropriate

On 7/31/06 4:12 PM, "David Farber" <dave@farber.net> either wrote,  
forwarded
or quoted:

> Why do you assume anyone did hold of a real customer list?   
> Admittedly, these
> days, it doesn't seem all that unlikely.    But even more  likely  
> is that
> "they" sent their vishing mail to every e-mail address they could   
> find, and
> it resonated with people who are customers.

On the other hand, I get spam on an SBCGlobal address that has not been
given out to anyone, for any purpose, and would be exceedingly  
difficult to
guess or make up.

Either spammers are using huge dictionaries drawn from every imaginable
source to generate e-mail addresses, or some spammer got a hold of our
SBCGlobal address somehow.

--
John Lyon | Austin TX
CD 10 | HD 50 | Precinct 259
"[M]any Americans... still have deep concerns about the direction of our
culture, and the health of our most basic institutions. They're  
concerned
about unethical conduct by public officials..."
George W. Bush - 2006 State of the Union




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