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4 Sep 2024 17:22:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My name is Dexter Dew...  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 8 Dec 2009 21:35:30
Message: <4b1f0cf2$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> 
>> Mostly, I think it's funny.  Someone, I'm sure, scammed the spammers. 
>> "We
>> not only have email addresses, but we have names to go with them!"  Yes,
>> they do.  No, they aren't the right names.
> 
> It's more likely to get past anti-spam systems. Nothing like using a
> plausible real-world name as the recipient's name. There are probably
> anti-spam systems that automatically trap mail with no real person name.

Yes, and that's why you get tons of spam with random real names. But 
consistently getting spam with the same and wrong real name? That's strange.


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