cavelamb himself wrote:

Vaughn Simon wrote:
"Al Patrick" wrote in message
netofbeaufortcounty...

I *appears* that someone is wishing to fake some mail from someone else! . . .
A phishing expedition to get passwords.


No problem, just give them a username and a password; any username and
password that happens to pop into your head at the moment! Let them waste their
time trying to do something with it.

Vaughn



That is not a particularly good idea, Vaughn.
In doing so, your reply actually validates your real address,
regardless of what name you give them...

Worse yet, it gives the spammers a link between a valid e-mail address
and an IP address, which gives them an approximate geographic location.
It also allows them to correlate that e-mail address to IP logs of other
web services and, potentially, link tour e-mail adrress to accounts on
those services.

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Paul Hovnanian
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