SPAM EXAMPLE *****Fw: No Pumps! No Surgery! No Exercises! olaf****

[Alan M. Evans]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 21:23 +0100, Chris Wright wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >> THIS IS JUST PROOF OF CONCEPT!!! 
> >> Sorry for forwarding this crap to list.  But this is proof that it does come in!
> >>
> > 
> > How is this proof of concept?  That you get spam?  WE all do, that's
> > nothing.  I see no evidence that this came from the list or anything
> > else of the sort.
> > 
> 
> I don't think he was claiming it came 'from' the list.
> More that the email address he has used on the list has been harvested 
> from the list (probably some archive somewhere), and that his address is 
> now on some spammers list.

I just googled "olivares14031" and it's all over the place! Any
webcrawler could have harvested the address from any of over 1400 web
pages. The fact that he used the address on the list seems pretty
incidental.