[CALUG] Very strange message from Bernie(?)

[Scott Kitterman]

I think that challenge and response systems like this are actively harmful and should be discouraged.

They don't reduce spam, they redirect it at innocent victims.

Scott K

Chuck Frain <chuck at chuckfrain.net> wrote:

Bernie uses a email verification program for when new people email him.
What I am guessing is that a piece of spam coming to the CALUG list (for
which he is an admin) triggered the response and it was sent to the
mailing list due to the forged headers of the original spam message.
Please ignore it as it is, in its current form, harmless. 

Chuck

On Wed, 07 Mar 2012, John Alan Hastings wrote:

> I just got a very strange email, which purports to come from
> karmilow<at>intencorp<dot>com.
> 
> The headers do not look like anything I have send -- or would.
> 
> Am I being fished? Are we being fished? Have I been hacked? Is it
> legitemate?
> 
> The time of the message is 9.53 am, which is also strange since it is
> now 5.06 pm.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> The message is:
> 

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Chuck Frain 
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