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Re: [Full-Disclosure] VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder
- To: "Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>, <full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Joshua Thomas" <JThomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder
- From: "Geoincidents" <geoincidents@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:53:33 -0400
----- Original Message -----
> Right now they take in the address of who you are sending to and who is
> sending. What a wonderful way to collect valid email addresses. First
> the MAIL FROM will be a correct address most of the time. The RCPT TO
> will be wrong 100% of the time, but they could employ scripts with some
> logic to see things like user@xxxxxxxxxxx is really
> user@xxxxxxxxxxxx and such. Many typos are repeated in the same way by
> many people.
>
> Can't wait for the spam to start flowing from that list of users they
So bust them at it. Setup some email that is unguessable, send an email to
noone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and if your unguessble address gets spammed
you know they did it. If a number of folks here do that and all get spammed
then it's pretty clear where the information came from.
Geo.
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