RE: Phishing scam

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote: 
 
> I also don't use this address for anything else, but our email
addresses
> are
> displayed on the Techwr-l web archive.  Easy pickings for spambots.

Actually, the From addresses are obscured/transmogrified in both the
archive interfaces that I know of (www.techwr-l.com/archives/ and
lists.techwr-l.com/pipermail/techwr-l/). 

Although I suspect that neither method is particularly hard for the
nefarious to defeat. :-}

Anyway, nowadays you can expect to get spam eventually at just about any
functioning email address, no matter how carefully you keep it secret. 

I don't know the details, but some spammers seem to pick a known domain
and then use some kind of dictionary-style attack, generating user names
at that domain. If 95% of them aren't valid, what does the spammer care?


Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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