Jo,
Here are the order of events, these are important.
1) I received a spam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] selling Viagra or
something.
2) I opened the URL to the and went to the page for unsubscribing
3) I filled out the unsubscribe information for a fictional personal
named Chris Mather. This constituted a "enter your email address to
unsubscribe from" box only.
4) Days later I received spam at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a) Dear mather, chris., one of the emails contained (which also
had a period after chris).
5) I received a spam entitled "refinance your mortgag3 in tree days
(note tree was in the subject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6) I filled out the form, which asked only for your name, address, phone
(please note it did not ask for email), value of property, etc
7) I received calls from multiple mortgag3 companies
8) I to this day receive upwards of 50 spams per say to this one account
alone. (I think I have about 15 of these types of accounts doing the
same job).
So, where in this line did I say "please send
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" lots of spam.
The question asked earlier was how to you get someone to start sending
spam, the quick answer is "unsubscribe".
And as I mentioned before, this whole story is also in the SA
archives...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:27 AM
> To: Gary W. Smith
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Psst!
>
> Gary W. Smith wrote:
> > Jo, please read in entirety...
>
> Sure.
>
> > Um, no, I unsubscribed it from a list and then received LD spam...
> > Therefore it's pretty much a spam gig. The solicited me first.
>
> You filled your information into a web form ... and they solicited
you?
> *confused*
>
> > We aren't talking about the pretty LD emails they sent to clients.
> > Don't get me wrong there. In fact, those come through just fine.
It's
> > the spams they outsource (or whatever) that come in. You know, they
> > ones where they misspell both mortgage and your name...
>
> Um... tell me. Did you misspell your name when you submitted it?
Then
> I seriously doubt it.
>
> The vast majority of mortgage account info come from public record
> information, and that's also where most mis-spellings occur because
> newspapers are too lazy to correct stuff like that. I'm not sure how
> they got your e-mail (god hopes your mortgage agency didn't put your
> e-mail into the public record)...
>
> > The history about this whole story is in the archives from about 18
> > months ago. I unsubscribed, received a crappy looking misspelled
spam,
> > went to the simple web page with a couple form fields, filled it
out,
> > and received lots of phone calls. For the return email address I
used
> > some bogus yahoo account. I can understand the phone spam but no
where,
> > and at no time, did I give them the spam email address other than
the
> > one time "unsubscribe" (which I think was also spelled wrong at the
> > time).
>
> Phone calls are more likely to be based on the public records that are
> published any time you refinance.
>
> Besides, your story is confusing. The first step is that you
> unsubscribed. You unsubscribed from what? This isn't the beginning
of
> the story...
>
> > So this is a completely valid spam account. There's no grey area
around
> > that one.
>
> I can't comment on that, mostly because I don't understand your story.
> It reads like it was tossed in a blender to me :-) (no insult
intended,
> but it is confusing as stated)
>
> --
> Jo Rhett
> Network/Software Engineer
> Net Consonance
