Today I have received spam with the following names in the "From" box:
Porter Katie Sara Nate Eddy Banana Girl Bunny Tracy Booker Steven
All with names close enough to a name I know from Hatrack to have to look twice. And this isn't the account I've published here.
Very strange.
Dagonee
Posted by AntiCool (Member # 7386) on :
That is weird.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Possibly pulling them from Gmail? Uses addresses on your own machine?
It is common for spam to use a "spoof" -- meaning it finds a name or address on your own machine and inserts it into the "from" header
Farmgirl
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I don't know - it'd have to be pulling the words out of context from somewhere. Not all of these are in my email, and not all of them are usernames that a program would be able to parse out of my web browser. Plus, I don't think I have spyware.
Certainly, out of about 100 spam I received today, it would be surprising if some pattern didn't exist. It's just weird.
Dagonee Edit: There was a Karl there, too. With a K.
[ February 17, 2005, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
But no JH...
I somehow feel bad not being part of the FakeSpam community .
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
I either have exceptional spam-blocking stuff on my email accounts or I'm just not ubercool enough to get spammed. Either way, I can't say I'm terribly disappointed to not have to wade through a bunch of crap to get the emails that are important to me...not that I'm cool enough for many of those either...
[ February 17, 2005, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Boon ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Is it spam, or just a weird, empty message with an attachment? I had hundreds coming in for a while, and then they disappeared.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
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