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Re: RE : ... blah lbah blah ... spam



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On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote:
> >Clever. Yes, going by the headers, those seem genuine replies to spam.
> 
> > The spam is crafted in a way (cc) that the reply lands here (for the
> > spammer, this distribution channel is what they want). The Goozim
> > bit seems compelling :)

[...]

> I am confident that the reply is the spam [...]

We have only the headers to go by, and some of that can be spoofed.
So I think your guess is as good as Thomas's and/or mine. What favors
our guess is spammer economy: one scarce resource for the spammer
is genuine domains/addresses (a spamhole domain quickly garners
a high spam score), and bouncing off unsuspecting users covers that
nicely.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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