A common scenario that I see is that Spammer X has, say, 5000 Yahoo email
addresses that they've bought, begged borrowed or stolen.  They can't just
send a message to all 5000 at once.
  So they split the list up into groups of say 25 names.  For each group,
they send their message to the first name in the group and BCC the other 24.
 So 24 people get a message that looks like it was sent to someone with an
email address that was *similar* to theirs, or occurred near it in
alphabetical order.

  Some of this spam is designed to look, to the recipient, like they have
accidentally received a copy of someone else's email containing, say, an
insider stock trading tip or a password to a secret web site.  Of course,
that's not what really happened at all.

David Gillett


On 26 Mar 2005 at 17:07, Anna Summers wrote:

> I'm having the same problem with  [log in to unmask]  I'm getting spam emails that seem to be generically addressed and not addressed specifically to me. --AnnaSummers
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> Sent: January 16, 2005 8:57 PM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] BAD MAIL
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> YAHOO & HOTMAIL& AOL are saying that they are proving SPAM blockers, BUT only on proper mail, not on spam. They don't care
> what the address is !!  Some examples - -
> On Yahoo, I'm   ALANSIMTH @YAHOO    but I received these examples
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> ALANSHURGURT@YAHOO     ALANSAYSLM@YAHOO , just a few of the many.
> And on HOTMAIL, I'm  ALSNEWTV@HOTMAIL, and I got some doozies!
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> Why can't we get ONLY the e-mails with our correct  address ???
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> I hope that you publish this. I believe that this is happening to a LOT of people.     Many thanks,   AL SMITH
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