discuss: received a phishing email, maybe tldp list related
Subject:
Re: [discuss] received a phishing email, maybe tldp list related
From:
John Meshkoff ####@####.####
Date:
26 May 2006 19:04:15 -0000
Message-Id: <20060526120414.7fe6c5eb.johnm@sivakalpa.org>
Thanks, Alex,
Looks like that's correct, as I get one of those back now for each mail
I send to the list.
On Fri, 26 May 2006 16:54:27 +0800
Alex Nordstrom ####@####.#### wrote:
> Friday, 26 May 2006 12:59, John Meshkoff wrote:
> > Within minutes or an hour of sending my previous post with the
> > subject "Remove my document", I receive a curious email that looks
> > like a "phishing" mail, with "(discuss) Remove my document" in the
> > subject line (NOT from a tldp address, not even a forged one).
> >
> > "Thank you for your email.
> > This is ####@####.####
> > Please complete the verification so that I can receive your email.
> > ¡°After finishing this verification,
> > you can be in my address book forever and won't need to do it
> > again.¡±
>
> That's not phishing, that's just plain old stupidity.
>
> Someone subscribed to the list is using a challenge-response system, a
>
> system some people use to shift the burden of filtering out spam from
> their e-mail onto others. Incidentally, C-R systems vastly increase
> the amount of spam (because messages such as the one you received are
> unsolicited *check* bulk *check* e-mail *check*).
>
> Furthermore, the subscriber has exacerbated the problem by subscribing
>
> to the list without whitelisting mails from the list. I'd say that's a
>
> pretty clear indication that they're not really that intent on being
> subscribed. Hence, the correct response is:
>
> 1) Forward the message to spamcop.net and report it as spam
> 2) Forward the message to the list owner and ask that they unsubscribe
>
> the offending user
>
> --
> Alex Nordstrom
> http://lx.n3.net/
> Please do not CC me in followups;
> I am subscribed to the tldp discussion list.
>
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