[SC-Help] Re: False Spamcop Positives on Yahoogroups Messages (66.94.237.42)

[John E. Malmberg]

David 1 wrote:
> 
> Well there is one function that I made the mistake of using untill an 
> upset person told me about it in no other term <G> you do have the 
> option to "direct add" a person but there is a big notece that missuse 
> will lead to loss of your account/group.

And since it appears that the spammers have come up with a program that 
allows them to create an unlimited number of throw away groups and 
e-mail accounts, why should the spammer care?

The spammers that are using Yahoo Groups are assuming that their account 
or group will be shutdown after the spam run.

 From analyzing the output of when a Yahoo Group that I was a member of 
was getting spammed because joining did not require a human approval, it 
was very obvious that the spammer was using a program to create 
throw-away Yahoo accounts.

A google search of news.admin.net-abuse.email shows 15 samples from the 
I.P. address in the title.

Many of them come from a regular poster in these newsgroups, and IIRC, 
that poster has stated that they are not a member of any Yahoo Group.

These basically confirm what the deputy has stated, Yahoo is allowing 
spammers to use these servers.

One spammer seems to have been able to operate for several months.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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