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SPAM alert - anytime a header field looks like the below, beware!

From: Shawn

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And "example.com" is a known spam site.

Trenbidia wrote in news:o3bsj7$k3t$ snipped-for-privacy@gioia.aioe.org:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Example.com may be used by spammers an awful lot, but it exists to be used as an example in documents. It's abused, sure, but not a site that sends a lot of spam.

From example.com: "This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in examples without prior coordination or asking for permission."

Puckdropper

The internet is full of once useful sites, and newsgroups, that have been taken over by those who love to destroy. I'd never heard of it, but about a month ago, I started getting spam from it on a daily basis. I looked it up on abuseipdb and it had been reported 5 times - I could easily have made it 20, but why? I know it's spam.

My point was to inform anyone who might not know, that those long nonsense strings in header fields are a dead giveaway.

Like the folk that blamed Hotmail for SPAMers using (usually fake) Hotmail addresses

Extra clarification: example.com is a domain. There is no site, aside from the place-holder page explaining the domain.

Actually, it is also explicitly suggested as a placeholder when an email address is required (such as Usenet postings) when you don't want to invite spam. Although the top-level domain .invalid is preferred (see my address).

I wish spammers would use fake addresses. I can't count the times I've had floods of bounce messages because some bozo used my address.