[Scspamcop] Re: Spam with spamcop ref

[Ellen]

Twayne wrote:
>  HI,
> 
> Probably of no consequence; I mention it only in the event that it means 
> anything to anyone here at SC.
> 
> The following tracker
> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z2413112474z3658d91fba5acecdc5dd6a5bcd3c7f39z
> 
> has as its subject line "You have 11 unread message" in it.
> 
> 1.  Normally I wouldn't pay any attention to it, but it's addressed to 
> one of my e-mail addresses that has NEVER received a spam in nearly 
> three years.  I also know the ONLY place I've used that address for in 
> the last two months; a place I wouldn't expect to be involved with spam: 
> Cherry keyboards at www.datacal.com, I think it was.  I can't get to any 
> sites where I can check rbl's right now but I've never seen spam as a 
> result of them before.  I used their link to go to their Cherry 
> programmable keyboard pages where I asked a question and gave them that 
> address to respond to.  I received a response to my question late 
> yesterday and the spam this am.
> 
> 2.  The previous e-mail spam submission I just checked, WAS 11 spams, 
> and the return did have the ... "11 unread..." sentence in it.
> 
> I'm going to use spamcop for the parse, but lart it manually so I can 
> remove that subject line, just in case it's a search method.  I like to 
> periodically pick one for special prejudice anyway; might's well make it 
> this one<g>.
> 
> Like I said; FWIW,
> 
> Twayne
> 
> 


There is an old saying -- when you hear hoofbeats think horses not 
zebras (or some such similar thing -- someone will be along in a minute 
to correct me) ...

I looked at the spam and there is nothing particularly unique or 
anything about it -- I have seen tons of that sort of subject line. And 
unless you changed the 'to" address before you submitted the spam to the 
parser I wouldn't be all that surprised about seeing spam to it. Just 
saying ....



Ellen
SpamCop