In message <484dfe5a-71e7-4851-8de0-fe35342cff97@spamtrap.tnetconsulting .net>, Grant Taylor via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> writes
>Is there any value in contacting postmaster@ / abuse@ for senders that >participated in a mass subscription bomb attack? this is "list bombing" and is done to simply annoy, or more often to hide some other message (about an unusual login, or money (or domain!) transfer) ... some simple advice to a victim is to check their Amazon (etc) order status... >I've got a user that received almost 1k subscription / welcome / >confirmation messages over a period of about 30 minutes before I >disabled the account (hopefully temporarily). that could mean they don't see the message which the attacker hoped to hide in the general mess -- viz: it's not the best approach IMO >As such, I've got a corpus of ~1k messages that appear to be >semi-legitimate at a quick glance. you could complain to the senders .. people who still have sign-up webpages and similar which don't have CAPTCHAs (or other tricks) to avoid robotic usage need to have the issue drawn to their attention depends how public spirited you feel ! -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
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