[108542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some odd harvesting going on?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Wed Oct 8 07:22:26 2008
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:21:22 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <25BCB151A9084F08AFC3F4D12C0B6F15@HDESK1>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:16:22PM -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> To prove that your message was sent by a human and not a computer, please
> visit the URL below and type in the alphanumeric text you will see in the
> image. You will be asked to do this only once for this recipient.
This doesn't look to me like phishing (although I can see the
similarities); it looks like yet another severely clueless site engaged
in challenge-response spamming. (C-R has long since been not only
completely discredited as an anti-spam tactic, but has been recognized
as a spam vector. Hosts emitting it are subject to blacklisting,
in the same way and for much the same reason that hosts emitting
backscatter/outscatter are.)
---Rsk
