I’ve been getting inundated lately with spam titled “New Software uploaded by Joanie” or “New Software Uploaded by Pete” etc etc etc. It all gets filtered straight into my Trash can (thank you spam filters) but I’m amazed at the volume of it.
Googling tells me that it’s being added to the spamwatch list of a few zillion server-side filtering operations and/or blacklists maintained by system admins, but I can’t find any discussion of where the heck it’s coming from.
Anyone know who is responsible? I’ve never seen WAREZ spam in such volume before!
For the last couple days, my spam folder was overwhelmed by spam with subjects reading “It me Becky”, “It me Tom”, “It me Homer”, etc., etc., etc. Never the same name twice.
Today, none of those. Now it all says “Me again Blake”, “Me again Tipton”, etc.
A lot of spam today is being produced by “botnets”. Infected PCs that are remotely controlled by spammers. There are who-knows-how-many botnets out there. When one gets a “contract” for spamming, it sends messages (usually indirectly) to the bots which then send the spam. (The bots get info from other infected machines as to spam contents, addresses, etc.)
So depending on which botnet has your address, and what contract the spammer has, your type of spam will vary. Since many machines in the same or related botnet have your address, you can easily get essentially the same spam in close order.
If you email goes thru a well controlled server system, the system soon catches on to the overall nature of the spam and will start junking some of it.