Is anyone tracking the "Fw: New Message" joe-job spammer?

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 19:45:16 UTC 2015


On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> I have 521 messages that match:
>         To:             nanog*
>         Subject:        new message
>
> In the last week. Obviously that includes things like Jay’s message below, but still a lot more than 100.
>
> It also hit outages@, and probably other places.
>
> Of course, I’m very upset about that. After 500+ tries, they did not spoof my name once!!! Guess I’m not important enough. <pout>

Well, the only spoofed one poor guys email address, the body texts
were an amalgamation of various names and URLs.

-Jim P.



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