Re: Why people post with "fake" names and email

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:38:52 -0600, tightwad <@plum.net> wrote:

>HD in NY wrote:
>
>> I'm not going to mark this OT because it isn't. A few days ago I sent
>> off two posts with my name and email address in them. Since posting with
>> the error@xxxxxxxxx address, I've received NO spam or spoof mail. Today
>> I got not one but two spoof mails from "PayPal" telling me my account
>> has been violated. I don't have a PayPal account and if I did, I sure as
>> *** wouldn't respond to a screwball request for information.
>>
>> Since leaving earthlink we have not been sent any spam or personal info
>> seeking email.
>> Hugh - death to spammers and thieves
>>
>I learned, early on, not to use my real email address. Even so, I
>suspect some of the junk I get has backtracked from my posts. There is
>no way except, perhaps, an anymous remailer, to hide your IP from those
>determined enough or paying any number of sites for the information.

I don't think the spammers go to much trouble to work around cloaking.
I never received that first spam after registering my domain and
getting off of bellsouth's server until I accidentally let my real
email address leak out on a post to a new group (Agent makes me munge
the email address for each newsgroup individually and I forgot.) That
was a couple of months ago. Spam has tapered off to one or two a week.

It looks like most (all?) spammers harvest obvious email addresses but
do little to nothing else.

John
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