Jeff:

Oh my God! Does this mean I really haven't won the Irish lottery?

Earlier this morning I ordered a brand new 2008 BMW.........

Does this mean I will have to cancel my order?

Brian.




On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:37:05 -0400, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>For those of you that got a list-generated copy of this hunk of spam:
>
>> We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the IRISH LOTTERY ...
>
>It would appear the spammers are getting smarter bots, or actually
>personally going through the handshaking required to post a message to
>the list.
>
>It was annoying enough to me that I had to go digging to see how they
>got away with it, to insure it wasn't a Listserv bug or backdoor, and
>found nothing of the sort.
>
>The message itself was submitted from a Bellsouth mailbox (web_lotto102)
>through a valid Bellsouth mailer and survived all of their checks (and
>ours) and was delivered to Listserv as an HP3000-L list posting.
>
>Listserv recognized that this address was not subscribed to the list, so
>it emailed back an encoded confirmation request to the web_lotto102
>Bellsouth mailbox.
>
>Someone (or something) sent back the confirmation cookie, again properly
>coded from the web_lotto102 address.
>
>I am speechless.  I hope this isn't a "new" Listserv-aware spam proxy agent.
>
>Time will tell.
>
>Jeff
>
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