As a follow-up to the UK geocities issue, I fear that this may be related to spyware or a virus.
Over the past few weeks, I've identified a few patterns. For example the email below contains 5 email addresses, 4 of which are quite unique. You will also note they are not indicative of a dictionary attack yet they were all email in one single SPAM.
Further, at least one of the people on this list passed away over a year ago.
Additionally, what I have been seeing is VERY VERY unique emails getting hammered with SPAM and I believe it must be a virus/spyware that is getting the address books off of machines because the emails are too unique to guess.
I don't know what to do with this information other than put out my $0.02 that I think people are targeting address books and I can't prove it :-(
Regards, KAM
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