[Scspamcop] Re: Phishing for Spamcop accounts

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"Ian Smith" <news0807REMOVECAPS at orrery.e4ward.com> wrote in message 
news:gaaisp$1g7$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Tim McGraw wrote:
>> Peter Pearson wrote:
>>> I've just received email phishing for Spamcop account information.
>>>
>>> Subject: UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT / SPAMCOP.NET
>>
>> Isn't this akin to phishing bank accounts using only a list of bank 
>> managers?
>
> I often wonder why the spammers don't remove all spamcop.net email 
> addresses from their lists - it would save them a good deal of grief.
>
> regards, Ian

For the same reasons that they spam NANAE , because they can, and they want 
people to know.

Also there are undoubtedly some SC users and mail account holders gullible 
enough to fall for this sort of thing.

There are still people falling for 419s when they have a mailbox full of 
hundreds of them.