Re: [WG-Spam] Re: Again a spammer

At 04:48 AM 3/8/2003 +0000, Stefan Probst wrote:
>I am mainly interested in knowing where they get the eMail addresses from.
>I am using since many years only redirected addresses, e.g. my mail
>address above, not the eMail address of my POP3 box with my ISP. Yet, most
>of the Vietnamese spam mail comes directly to my POP3 box. Means: Either
>they use an address list, which is very old, or they get the addresses
>directly from the ISP ....

I don't think ISP give their client email addresses list to spammers. That
guy might get the address list
- by collecting email addresses from Internet
- from friends who work for ISPs
- from hacked servers of ISPs (I would say nearly all ISPs get
owned by someone. Some hacked cases were published, for example FTP HCM
case
http://www.vnsecurity.net/index.php?option=news&Itemid=2&task=viewarticle&sid=201)
- ...?

Afaik, VNN also provided an email advertising service before to help you
send your advertisement info to all VNN clients. I don't know whether they
still provide this service or not. Stefan, you know how to confirm it,
right? ;)

cheers,

Thanh Nguyen
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