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Attention world: There is no Amy Yamashita here. the address Amy_Yamashita@liquidbinary.com does not exist, is not a person, and should not be sending or recieving any e-mail, ever. I haven't even recieved anything from this falsified account, I've just been receiving the bouncabacks from the undeliverable messages. Standard virus / spam zombie tactic, forge the from address Whatever got a hold of this address though has been quite busy, attempting to enlarge people's penises. ... So often when discussing spam I stumble and wonder what the correct plural form of penis really is. It's hard talking about such awful things in these modern times, isn't it? Anyway, I noticed it because I've recieved about 100 bouncebacks in the last day. If I recieved bouncebacks from addresses that don't exist, and spammer lists are 80% accurate, then there were probably 500 such craptastic messages sent from that mythical person yesterday. Just yesterday. Chances are the machine(s) involved probably rotated from addresses so that there are tens of thousands more of the same type still going out. Once upon a time, in order to deter spamming, there had been a proposal make every e-mail sent cost a penny. I have a slightly better idea. Every e-mail costs a dime, unless the recipient waives the fee. Fee waiving is the default behavior, unwaved fees should be reported to your ISP. Bounceback e-mail is billed to the sender, like a ten cent check bounce. The destination ISP (owner of the receiving mail server) just sends out bills. I know this plan is far from perfect, but it's closer to a correct and balanced system than what we have now. And I'm leveraging capitalism rather than pure bureaucracy. I think the idea has enough merit to at least ponder for a moment, yes? Anyway, if there's anyone out there who cares, if you have received an e-mail to, from, or about Amy_Yamashita@liquidbinary.com then you can safely delete such e-mail with prejudice. It is verifiable spam. And if you happen to know any Amy Yamashitas, tell them hi for me, and let them know that an acquaintance of theirs has gotten a computer virus and is spreading their name around on the bathroom wall of the internet. Right above the urinals. I hesitate to give out my e-mail address to people because of this. I'm less afraid of the corporate spam tactics than individual Windows users now because I've been slammed by so many windows abusing spam bots and address stealing viruses. It's insane. Alas, poor Amy probably feels the same way now. ... Oh, and I just won two lotteries that I never heard of in the past 5 minutes. I'll collect them right after I update my personal information with eBay and some bank I never heard of, because apparently there's something bad that could happen if I don't keep my information up to date with them. Wow, can you believe that? I'm glad they're protecting me, because it's hard to know who to trust anymore. :-/ |