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Roundup Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008

Backscatter Simulates a Form of Lunch Meat Analogy

Backscatter Simulates a Form of Lunch Meat Analogy - (View article)
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If you've been inundated lately with bounced email from addresses you've never sent a note to, you're experiencing the heartbreak of backscatter. Backscatter is an attempt by scammers to get you to read unsolicited email by sending it using your return address - forging it, which is simple - and then having you open the messages that mail servers innocently return. (We dare not speak the name of a certain type of email represented typically by a trademarked processed meat name because it results in our email being banned by many mail filters. So excuse my coyness.) I've received... [More]