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Re: spam to bogus users



On Friday 14 July 2006 06:42, John Kelly wrote:
> Every day, I get mail delivery attempts to non-existent users like:
>
> k2159jcd003343@isp2dial.com
> k1mmcsoa007563@isp2dial.com
> k1nardpb001747@isp2dial.com
>
>
> These totally bogus user names are not a good dictionary attack.  I
> don't know what the spammer is trying to accomplish, since delivery is
> impossible.  The user portion almost looks like a mail queue message
> id.

I often can look up the bogus address and find a Usenet post with the same 
message ID.

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