Spam to list participants (from openhosting.com & softcom.com)

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:03:03 -0700
Matt Lager <matt at soliddataservices.com> wrote:

> Thanks for putting in this legwork and reporting back... I received a 
> few of these today after replying to a thread, and my daughter
> commonly uses my computer. I was lucky to not have my E-mail sitting
> open, as they all contained inappropriate pictures. I must pose the

what are inappropriate pictures?

> question, do these spam messages work, ever? They must for people to

I do not know but I have the feeling that the spam comes from hacked
Windows accounts. I never got this kind of spam via the list but only
to the address I am using here. After reporting the issue to the owner
of the IP used for sending the spam out, it stopped until another
Windows machine got hacked.

> be sending them. But what's more interesting, is my spam messages
> didn't contain any links to go somewhere else, although I'm sure if I
> replied, those links would be on their way.

It also could be just a test for hacking Windows machine and also a
test for how long they can be used. The spam as such does not make any
sense except the girls really only want to find clients. I cannot
imagine that this will work with e-mail addresses from a list like this.

Erich