Apple joins the webmail hall of shame

April 8, 2006

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.)

Written on 08 April 2006.
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