[Am-info] wow, the spammers are getting smarter.

[Mitch Stone]

The Yahoo mailing lists are in the process of being bombarded with 
"subscribers" peddling porn.

On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 07:57 PM, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

> In <3D5795A600053501@mta04.san.yahoo.com> (added by
> postmaster@mail.san.yahoo.com), on 08/12/02 at 10:19 PM,
>    Paul Rickard <pr@ms-bc.com> said:
>
>
>>   They actually had to sign up, send the message, send the reply... How
>> stupid do they think we are?
>
> In this case they wasted their few seconds setting this charade up on our
> group, but for the unknowing masses in most of the other yahoo groups,
> there are a few suckers who probably fall for the con.  They are preying
> on the same folks m$ relies on.  Anyone here not see the setup with the
> first email?  God we are a cynical, untrusting bunch aren't we? ;-)