Apple joins the webmail hall of shame

Wandering Thoughts | April 8, 2006, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Selected headers of a just-received advance fee fraud:

Received: from smtpout.mac.com
  ([17.250.248.89])
  by <redacted> ...
Received: from mac.com
  (webmail11-en1 [10.13.10.117])
  by ...;
  Sat, 8 Apr 2006 03:01:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: JOHAN CAMPHER <johancampher4@mac.com>
To:   JOHAN CAMPHER <johancampher4@mac.com>
Subject: I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE
X-Originating-IP: 80.89.179.237/instID=151

80.89.179.237 has been listed as part of SBL32972 for being a source of advance fee fraud since November 26th, 2005. Yet Apple is still perfectly willing to help it spam us, for whatever reason .

I don't have much to say that I didn't already say when Demon Internet joined the webmail hall of shame , so I'll just refer people to that entry.

(I'm not sure if Apple's .Mac stuff offers genuinely free webmail, but their FAQ says that they have at least a 60 day free trial. And when they call a machine webmail11-en1 , I take them at their word.)

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