Automated spam, or coincidence?
Everyone knows (or everyone technically competent with a computer knows) that spammers fake return addresses - so occasionally you'll get people complaining to you about spam that you didn't send.
The higher your profile, or the more web sites you have, or the more published your email addresses are the more this will happen.
I mention this because I just received an email from Jim Ross, an acquaintance that died recently.
This might be a coincidence, and spammers just hit a nerve with their name auto-generation. Or it could be that this is a sign that they are getting cleverer in hiding their identity.
Could they, do you think, have linked my name and Jim's from my earlier blog entry?
Actually, I seriously doubt that it possible by anyone other than Google (with their huge database you better bet your ass they could do this). But it did certainly make me stop and read the email, and gave me chills when doing so.
Still, I should give spammers credit (in this case foreclosuretraining.com) for getting me to read it.
Today it's spammers 1, me 151.
If I haven't said it recently, SpamBayes rocks for spam blocking. Don't be put off by the source forge, open-source-ness of the application. It's not shareware quality, this is good enough that any users would gladly pay to use it.