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Old 08-12-2012, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Allan_L View Post
Third such in two days:


Obviously someone has sold my address recently.

At least they are "topical" for a change.
They are usually topical Allan. 1d10t5 are more likely to be interested in something new, celebrities, pornography, disasters, ...

A "UK barrister" with a Chinese email address

Domain Name: PKUIT.COM
Created on: 19-Sep-06
Expires on: 19-Sep-14
Last Updated on: 28-Dec-11

Registrant:
XUE LIREN
QiaoDongQuYiDeLong
XingTai, 054001
China

Maybe someone sold an address list. More likely someone who had you in their address list got pwned, or they just generated a list of possible email addresses at your ISP until they hit some live ones.

I'm running at about 30 spam emails a day and that's down quite a bit. If I only used email addresses for my own domain and redirected the MX records to point at my mail server I could bounce a lot of the crap. A shame all the ISPs don't do source filtering.
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