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[Michael]

askinf for all my account numbers? I got it!

On Monday 25 September 2006 23:20, Alexander Henry wrote:
> Just like Alan said, it's phishing.
>
> I recently wrote a PERL script to make my life easier with installfest
> announcements.  When I finished, I suddenly realized I wrote a
> spam-bot.  I've never dealt with talking POP or SMTP before this.  ALL
> you do is make a text file with the headers on top with the right
> format, like this:
>
>
>
> From: MAILER-DAEMON <noreply at cox.net>
> Subject: H4X
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:15:25 -0700
>
> Hello World
>
>
>
> Then open a connection to Cox's (or your favorite) SMTP server, dump the
> text file in, and the server will believe whatever your text file says,
> From: fields and all.  (Although if YOU saw all the headers personally,
> you wouldn't believe it.)
>
> You know what, I'm going to e-mail you my own phish signed with the same
> Cox Tech Support thing you had right now.  Let us know here if you get it
> :)
>
> Shawn Badger wrote:
> > It sound like a good way to get you to become a junk emailer in my
> > opinion. Cox would just disable you from sending out e-mail and then
> > have you call support to find out why your email doesn't work.
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 09:53 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> >> I'd give Cox a call and findout.  They may have sent it and have
> >> additional info or it may be a trick and they may have additional
> >> info.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> bmike101 at cox.net wrote:
> >>         I got an email today. Please read and let me know what you
> >>         think. I think it is not whom it purports to be because the
> >>         attachment is not titled appropriately. I wouldn't have opened
> >>         it anyways but just the same!
>
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