Piners,
I think Ive uncovered a now way for spammers to see if they have a live
email address.
The email has a clever subject line that almost anyone will click on,
"Changes to your email account"
The email itself is almost jibberish, not even spammy, but it has hidden
HTML in it that refers to a website, and the body of the HTML has your email
address embedded in it that will get sent in an HTML dialag when you view
the email.
here is the HTML if anyone is interested, I substituted
"your_email@your_domain.com" for my
email address.
<body><img
src="http://www.listo01.com/FMPro?-db=tr.fp5&-format=tr.htm&e=your_email@you
r_domain.com
&b=tue07&-new" border="0" width="2" height="1"></body></html>
As you can see, the spammer can verify automatically if he has a live
address just be sending the
email and then watching the HTML traffic on his web server.
I suspect my spam load is about to skyrocket.
Jarrid Gross
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