[IP] more on Email Scammers Try New Bait in 'Vishing' For Fresh Victims
Begin forwarded message:
From: John Lyon <jelyon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 31, 2006 6:01:07 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Email Scammers Try New Bait in 'Vishing'
For Fresh Victims
Comment For IP if appropriate
On 7/31/06 4:12 PM, "David Farber" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> either wrote,
forwarded
or quoted:
Why do you assume anyone did hold of a real customer list?
Admittedly, these
days, it doesn't seem all that unlikely. But even more likely
is that
"they" sent their vishing mail to every e-mail address they could
find, and
it resonated with people who are customers.
On the other hand, I get spam on an SBCGlobal address that has not been
given out to anyone, for any purpose, and would be exceedingly
difficult to
guess or make up.
Either spammers are using huge dictionaries drawn from every imaginable
source to generate e-mail addresses, or some spammer got a hold of our
SBCGlobal address somehow.
--
John Lyon | Austin TX
CD 10 | HD 50 | Precinct 259
"[M]any Americans... still have deep concerns about the direction of our
culture, and the health of our most basic institutions. They're
concerned
about unethical conduct by public officials..."
George W. Bush - 2006 State of the Union
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