9 Days
On May 6th I created a new email account to use for two mailing lists which don’t protect their archives from address harvesting. The email address in question has been used for nothing else. On May 15th, I got the first barrage of spams to that address:
- A phishing scam purportedly from eBay, actually from what looks like a Comcast user infested with one or another of the trojans
- Something allegedly from Blue Solutions JCCF Com with a fairly tangled header chain also passing through a Comcast machine
- Something allegedly from Star RW Lim. with another header chain implicating Comcast servers, and linking to a spamvertised site in the same domain as the Blue Solutions email. Has attached GIF file that I didn’t open
- A nearly identical copy of the Star RW mail that did not travel through Comcast machines
- Another eBay/PayPal phishing message
- A phishing scam targeting LaSalle bank customers, with bonus JavaScript popup ad code, that appears to originate from a hacked school machine in Wisconsin
- An ad whose content is apparently in a GIF file that PINE doesn’t display, possibly from conyers dot us