Ebay Phishing

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Robert Slade wrote:

> Is it just me, but I've had 2 Ebay Phishing e-mails to this e-mail
> address that I only use for this mail list. Both mails where from
> Comcast users !!

Mail to this list is reposted on the web and through multiple 
mail-to-news gateways.  So your address was likely harvested.

As to Comcast, it's a multitude of Windows users on high-speed 
connections, many of them running infected machines that are 
broadcasting viruses and spam.

If you have your own mailserver, most of this can be rejected by using 
greylisting or by rejecting mail from dynamic Comcast IP addresses, 
while still allowing mail coming from Comcast's mail servers.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA