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Subject: 
Spammer Using LUGNET?
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Date: 
Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:47:22 GMT
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Has anyone else received an email with this address?

I5zJ6s.rDJ@lugnet.com

I got my fifth such email and all five have had some virus or worm in them.

Thanks,

Adr.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Spammer Using LUGNET?
 
(...) Yes, I am getting them as well, I get one a day with that lugnet.com addy, always with an attachment which I just assumed is a virus, so I have just deleted them. Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Spammer Using LUGNET?
 
(...) Looks like some spammer or script kiddie (or worm) figured out that LUGNET is a good domain to spoof return addresses from. It is very very unlikely (although not impossible, I suppose, but it would have to be something that works on Linux) (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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