[Users] OT: Flint Stone Hydro spam

Marco Moock mm at dorfdsl.de
Sun Jul 21 08:47:51 UTC 2024


Am 21.07.2024 um 10:31:50 Uhr schrieb Johan Vromans:

> I regularly get messages that are apparently sent from 燧石希德罗
> <logonflint at gmail.com>. (The chinese sender name translates to Flint
> Stone Hydro). It is clearly spam and slightly annoying (I can esasily
> filter it) but what intrigues me is why? A spam message wants me to
> reply, or push a button, but the contents of these mails are just a
> series of comma-separated numbers (maybe a truncated piece of JSON?). 

Sometimes people generate such messages to create high load on mail
systems by creating many of them. At work a form was also used to fill
other people's inboxes with useless messages.

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Gruß
Marco

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