Email Verification!!

Email Management Teams

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Jul 11, 2010, 2:50:01 PM7/11/10

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Dear Email user's,

This message is from the EMAIL Admin IT Service to all our email account subscribers. You are to provide to us the below information to revalidate your account due to spam and to upgrade the new 2010 spam version.

Notice: Your Email account will be expired after a week, if you do not revalidate or update your account. Please do co-operate with us so we can serve you better, contact the adminstrator!!****

User Name:
Password:
Confirm Your Password:
Alternative Email :

Thank You.
Email Administrator
Warning Code :ID67565434.

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Tom Furie

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Jul 11, 2010, 5:10:01 PM7/11/10

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I have to say, I laughed my self silly when I read that mail.

Cheers,
Tom

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Tom Furie wrote:
> I have to say, I laughed my self silly when I read that mail.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>

I just studied headers of this email and it looks like from Debian on VPS.
BTW my pass is Red Dwarf and username is Gargamel
:-)

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gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xC100B4CA
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

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=lGsf
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Rominiek Schoonen

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Jul 11, 2010, 7:00:01 PM7/11/10

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Mark Chong

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Jul 11, 2010, 7:40:01 PM7/11/10

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Emails like this need to be archived some where so that future generations
may lol, this one is epic.

On 10/07/10 05:44, Email Management Teams wrote:
> Dear Email user's,
>
> This message is from the EMAIL Admin IT Service to all our email account subscribers. You are to provide to us the below information to revalidate your account due to spam and to upgrade the new 2010 spam version.
>
> Notice: Your Email account will be expired after a week, if you do not revalidate or update your account. Please do co-operate with us so we can serve you better, contact the adminstrator!!****
>
> User Name:
> Password:
> Confirm Your Password:
> Alternative Email :
>
> Thank You.
> Email Administrator
> Warning Code :ID67565434.
>
>
>
>

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Quick Knowledge
p: 03 9804 2130
f: 1800 657 778
mail: ma...@qk.com.au
web: www.qk.com.au

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kuLa

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Mark Chong wrote:
> Emails like this need to be archived some where so that future
> generations may lol, this one is epic.

>> revalidate your account due to spam and to upgrade the new 2010 spam

Specially this part, at least guys want to improve them self :-)
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gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xC100B4CA
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

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Ansgar Wiechers

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Jul 12, 2010, 3:20:01 AM7/12/10

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On 2010-07-11 Tom Furie wrote:
> I have to say, I laughed my self silly when I read that mail.

Considering that apparently still sufficient people are stupid enough to
fall for this kind of scam, thus keeping it attractive for spammers and
their likes, I'm not quite as amused as you seem to be.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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Tom Furie

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Jul 12, 2010, 11:10:02 AM7/12/10

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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:02:22AM +0200, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:

> Considering that apparently still sufficient people are stupid enough to
> fall for this kind of scam, thus keeping it attractive for spammers and
> their likes, I'm not quite as amused as you seem to be.

As a general rule I agree with you, but given that this instance landed
in this mailing list - populated by generally well informed individuals
- I felt it safe to let my guard down a little.

Cheers,
Tom

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Gavin

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Jul 12, 2010, 9:50:01 PM7/12/10

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Hehe,

Firstly for any actual bites I think these spammers might be scratching their heads as to exactly what the keys they have just been given actually open, lol.

Secondly, I wonder if reverse tack ticks could work here, what would spammers do if they got 10 000 fake replies to every spam they sent out?

Cheers
Gavin

Tom Furie wrote:

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:02:22AM +0200, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:

Considering that apparently still sufficient people are stupid enough to
fall for this kind of scam, thus keeping it attractive for spammers and
their likes, I'm not quite as amused as you seem to be.

As a general rule I agree with you, but given that this instance landed
in this mailing list - populated by generally well informed individuals
- I felt it safe to let my guard down a little.

Cheers,
Tom

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B. Alexander

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Jul 13, 2010, 4:20:01 AM7/13/10

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On one hand you have the automated spammers, but otoh, you have the ones that hire hundreds of cheap labor (for pennies a day) to beat the captcha, e.g. forum and blog comment spammers. If its the latter, confusion. If its the former, they may or may not have the bodies to throw at the problem. In either case, hopefully they find it unprofitable.

I'm too much of a realist, what probably happens is that that particular operation drops this address from their list.

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Rominiek Schoonen

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Jul 13, 2010, 5:00:02 AM7/13/10

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I fake replied.
I sugest we all do the same.

Ansgar Wiechers

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Jul 13, 2010, 5:40:01 AM7/13/10

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On 2010-07-13 Gavin wrote:
> Firstly for any actual bites I think these spammers might be
> scratching their heads as to exactly what the keys they have just been
> given actually open, lol.

I seriously doubt that.

> Secondly, I wonder if reverse tack ticks could work here, what would
> spammers do if they got 10 000 fake replies to every spam they sent
> out?

Run a script to validate them and discard everything that doesn't?

Regards
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Ansgar Wiechers

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On 2010-07-13 Rominiek Schoonen wrote:
> I fake replied.
> I sugest we all do the same.

I suggest we don't. It's not helping with the problem.

cu
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Tomas Krasnican

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Jul 13, 2010, 6:20:01 AM7/13/10

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Is it realy needed to disscuse about this topic here??

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Michal

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On 07/13/2010 09:40, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
> On 2010-07-13 Rominiek Schoonen wrote:
>
>> I fake replied.
>> I sugest we all do the same.
>>
> I suggest we don't. It's not helping with the problem.
>
> cu
> 59cobalt
>

Agreed, we would only be adding to the spam traffic in the internet tubes

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Lutz Feldgen

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Jul 13, 2010, 8:10:02 AM7/13/10

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Could you please stop sendig spammails to the list?

"Agreed, we would only be adding to the spam traffic in the internet tubes"

you do this with every reply regarding this subject. please use
spam2-...@lists.debian.org instead.

regards
lf

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Gavin

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Jul 15, 2010, 10:20:01 AM7/15/10

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I don't know, handling spam could be considered part of firewall setup?
So we are discussing ways of dealing with it, with perhaps a touch of humour to ease the suffering.

Lutz Feldgen wrote:

Could you please stop sendig spammails to the list?

"Agreed, we would only be adding to the spam traffic in the internet tubes"

you do this with every reply regarding this subject. please use spam2-...@lists.debian.org instead.

regards
lf

Michal schrieb:

On 07/13/2010 09:40, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:

On 2010-07-13 Rominiek Schoonen wrote:

I fake replied.
I sugest we all do the same.

I suggest we don't. It's not helping with the problem.

cu
59cobalt

Agreed, we would only be adding to the spam traffic in the internet tubes

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