capoccia's Journal: Bill Walker?

Anyone know a Bill Walker? This is a pretty creative spam list test method. It's sure to pass every Bayesian filter.

If you're not convinced the following letter is spam, look at the following:

• [e-mail] is a very casino-ish email address
• My email address has my name in it. It's clearly not Bill Walker
• Postmaster is not what you would expect in the "To:" field of an email looking for Bill Walker.

I started filing all my spam through spamcop about 1 1/2 months ago. I still haven't seen any drop-off in quantity. It sure does make me feel like I'm doing something, though.

This month I also started a spreadsheet to keep track of how many spams I recieve. I have graphs tracking the average daily for each day of the week and day of the month.

It's been one week, so it's not a very statistically meaningful result, but Saturday was the only day with any appreciable drop in the amount of spam. The rest of the days averaged 15 (+/- 2) spams per day; Saturday was 9.

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Message-ID: <4g44v4aep166$w2l80c50$[e-mail]>
From: <[e-mail]>
To: Postmaster
Subject: How are you doing ?
Date: , 7 11 2003 07:41:57 +0900
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
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X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
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is this the right email address? is this Bill Walker?

Looks like spam bait to me

[Degrees]

Just from the subject line, I would have deleted it without opening it. (Well, o.k., that and the sender's address.)

If it was serious, the person would have put some identifying info in to point out the possible connection between you and (s)he.

Seems pointless though - even if the message was composed to get past the spam filters, real spam would get blocked. However, there probably are people who would, out of the kindness of their heart, answer back 'no you have the wrong person.' - and thus their addre

Re:live one

[capoccia]

However, there probably are people who would, out of the kindness of their heart, answer back 'no you have the wrong person.' - and thus their address would go on sale as a 'live one'.

more likely, all the addresses that didn't bounce would be sold.