[Spambayes] Impersonation

Matt Sergeant msergeant@startechgroup.co.uk
Tue Nov 12 13:02:57 2002


Guido van Rossum said the following on 12/11/02 12:55:
> More and more spam is impersonating real people rather than making up
> phoney AOL addresses.  I just received a bounce quoting the following
> spam:
> 
> 
>>Message-ID: <000059425b35$0000481d$00007669@evertythingmail.net>
>>From: guido@python.org
>>Reply-To: Bob123@hotmail.com
>>To: clevelandindians@flash.net
>>Subject: 1hi29895
>>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:42:40 -0500
>>MIME-Version: 1.0
>>Content-Type: text/plain;
>>	charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>g45, 
>>
>>Do you own a Business?
>>
>> <http://www.best-cyber-deals.com/1/> Do you need a Web Site?  Let Us Design
>>it.
>>
>>We can Design a Web Site that's perfect for you.
>>
>>feedback@cdsymas.com h6 
> 
> Surely this is copied from successful viruses. 

Spam was doing this first, fwiw.

Matt.




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