North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Blocking mail from bad places
> Some of it is quite sophisticated: full blown "instant" profiles with > fake comments ... the smarter spammers actually make the profile look > real (often lifting material from legit user profiles), and then > just ... At the MIT Spam Conference, I was talking to MySpace's anti spam researcher. He said that they see many profiles that look totally legit and which have been carefully nurtured for more than six months -- and then the formally legit profile suddenly becomes the drop site for a Phishing campaign or other spam repository. Captchas apparently help quite a bit to stem this kind of problem because they install a technical barrier that, while not impossible to break through programatically, at least delays things a bit and reduces the ROI for the spammer. Regards, Ken -- Ken Simpson, CEO MailChannels Corporation Reliable Email Delivery (tm) http://www.mailchannels.com Attachment:
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