From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T07:12:46+09:00
Subject: Re: confirmation

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:53:12AM +0900, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> writes:
> > That's a standard fraudulent statement; it sounds better than "we got your
> > E-mail address from a bulk E-mail CD"
> 
> Spammers don't use confirmation emails, though; they just spam.  This
> looks like a legit reply from a fraudlent submission.

I can only imagine that you don't get a lot of spam then :-)

I have many examples of spams which have the appearance of confirmation
mails. I think it's an attempt to disguise that it's spam, particularly in
response to abuse reports, and/or comes from a misguided idea of what an
"opt-in mailing list" means (i.e. ISP says to spammer: you can only use
opt-in lists. Spammer decides that means it's OK to send an opt-in
confirmation message to everyone on his spam list)

I have even more which actually have the gall to say "this is not spam" :-(

Regards,

Brian.