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by santeewelding

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The following message to
MIME-Version:
1.0
Content-Type:
multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_1849_956211782.1286000992391"
Content-Disposition:
inline

TechRepublic Spam Alert - Spam message.
spam

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=335917&messageID=3366591

Probably the fourth or fifth I've gotten in the last couple days.

What's going on?

_________

Just now noticed the above link I marked as spam. This is, what, retribution?

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by tobif

Unless you've been writing to this address, some spammer is spraying spam to this "Sonja" address, faking your address as the sender.

Most email systems don't bounce in this way, since so many sender id's are faked nowadays.

I just read about new nasty spam with inline javascript to open backdoors if a recipient clicks on a link in a message. And sometimes they try to have these emails look as if they come from someone you know.

Oh: you want to peek inside the attachment. IF the failed email came from your mail provider and your ip-address, then you have some evilware in your system.

by santeewelding

The one from "Sonja" came simultaneously with another of the same, "begging" me to click on an unrecognized sender to find out what it was all about.

No. They were a direct result of my activity on TR. You know: making friends of, and influencing spammers.

Not the first time.

Thank you, Tobi.

by tobif

So the integration is not bullet proof on their side.
(Of course, "the page could not be found" happened several times today, so why not this...)

by boxfiddler

TR PTB's, along with moderators every time a post is marked as SPAM. Apparently, there's a glitch in the system.

I get, and have been getting from the outset of this little 'experiment', at least five spam alerts for each post marked as Spam.

Glitch be expanding...

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