Rob McEwen a écrit : > I have an e-mail address of a former employee of a client of mine that I use > (with permission) to monitor spam since this address receives MUCH spam. Of > course, it is within the realm of possibility that some of this was actually > subscribed to, but most of it is spam. Therefore, this account has value to > me, but is not to be confused with a real spam trap. > > Today, this address received a spam which claimed that it was subscribed to, > but it... > > (1) looks spammy > > (2) contains spammy obfuscation... if they are so legit, why do they have to > obfuscate? That has always been a red flag > > (3) and... the spam contains threats to anyone who might blacklist them (and > I take offense at the tone of these threats... especially since the text of > the actual thread is full of obfuscated words... wouldn't you take offense?) >
That's yet another spam sign! honest companies don't make such threats. > Of course, if my recipient address was a true spamtrap address, this would > be a no-brainer... but since it wasn't a true spamtrap address, am I > actually putting myself at legal risk if I were to list this spammer on > SURBL and URIBL? > If your network is private, you can block anyone, unless you have a contract that says otherwise or you serve other people. > Also, another idea is to contact them and challenge them to provide the IP > address and date/time stamp of the supposed request from my client's former > employee. If the date/time stamp they provide is **recent**, they'd be > caught "red handed" as well... but the problem here is that I would then > have provided this e-mail address to the spammer for listwashing... > something I'm reluctant to do. > > Any comments/suggestions welcome! If in doubt, you can click on their link to opt out (that will confirm the address. so what? the address already gets a lot of spam!).
