More Phising or not ? (was) Re: [clug] Please help me update my address book on Ringo

[Stephen Jenkin]

Luke is right - spammers do tag the source & hitting the link validates an
address as 'active'.
This seems to be a genuine service put to an interesting use or
an unintended invite to the list.

I would not expect this particular attempt to lead to more spamming of the
list... It is like the "Irish" virus - 'would you mind deleting all the
files from your hard disk for me'.

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Luke Worth wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:10, Stephen Jenkin wrote:
> > I did check 'ringo.com' - it exists & the link works.
> > > http://ringo.com/i?uid=mUxrWAunnXBV.yAs&
> 
> For future reference, spammers like to 'tag' their links with email addresses. 
> If anyone even hits that page, it means their email address exists so they'll 
> send more spam.
> 
> Luke
> -- 


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