Barclays

[Steve Walker]

Yep - appears to have been set up from Vietnam!

 

Most of today's spam seems to be originating from a server in China for an organisation registered in Uzbekistan. They are generating email with fake "from" addresses and what look suspiciously like randomly generated return addresses like "gyutd@nicerealmail.info" and "ahk@nicerealmail.info". Just the kind of text string you might generate if you wanted to use it as a surrogate key to a database of harvested email addresses, for example. The little tinkers!

 

Not as nice as the html email using the numeric ID in <img> tag trick to register which email addresses were live (the source of the image was not a file but a CGI script which then presumably recorded that someone had opened the email with ID xxxx.) I knocked up a little program to call their script URL with lots and lots of numbers. They must have been delighted to see how many of their email addresses were saleable...

[Emz]

Awwwwwwww I feel left out, I didn't get one

 

Glad to hear that you got it sorted Elton

[Pete Elleray]

Isn't the first rule on the internet to delete incoming messages from 'strange' addresses? If you haven't got a Barclays account and you replied, you have told the sender that your address is valid.

 

Pete

[Alan Fawcett]

I've got around 20 email accounts now, i seem to be addicted to freebie on-line email addresses.

 

helps when you need to enter an email address on a website you ain't to sure about.

 

Postmaster is a good one for free email addys cos a lot of filters on sign up systems block hotmail or yahoo.

[Jim Roper]

Yep - appears to have been set up from Vietnam!

 

Not Gary Glitter?