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Someone, somewhere has my email address on their computer and also a lovely selection of a windows virus du-jour. That same person also has the subscription address to this particular Google-related blog. You put those three things together and what do you get?
A virus sent to that subscription address with my e-mail address as a return.. and in return a 'subscription confirmation' email in my inbox.
Amusing.
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I know someone who had an autoresponder for mail identified as spam (before he learned that one shouldn't do[1] that), that would respond with a mail along the lines of
"Your recent email to me was identified as spam and has been deleted unread. If your message was important please resend it. You will need to edit it first so it looks less like spam."
and among others, he got a few genuine unsubscription confirmation mails. (Of course he also landed himself on live address lists..)
[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3682
Posted by: Aristotle Pagaltzis | April 27, 2004 12:57 AM
Dont feel alone, we can build-up a non-exclusive club of damnified and sufferers; btw I find very funny to receive spam from myself on my other addresses, or even from the same address (they still have a long way to refine the process, and also the spam filters)
Posted by: Luis | April 27, 2004 02:58 AM
Oh here's a good one you'd appreciate:
Getting an email sent to your account@somedomain from administrator@samedomain telling you that you have a virus and should run this application (trojen horse, of course) to prevent any problems. Meanwhile, I'm the owner of somedomain and there's only one mailbox@somedomain (and administrator obviously isn't one of them).
"Oops"
The original domain that started the message is some marketing spam-creator company, so I spammed their accounts back with a nice (and legal-action-threatening) tone that got no reply but no more email from that domain either... just thought it was a classic blunder on their part.
Posted by: Randy | April 27, 2004 08:43 AM
I'm having this problem too. After years without any spam at all, I now get around 10 messages a day all from virus infected machines.
I think I'll set up some filtering as almost all of them have similar trojans attached.
Posted by: Philip | April 28, 2004 07:46 AM
test..
Posted by: kasia | April 28, 2004 10:21 PM