[nmglug] Phishing [Was:filezilla,cron]

[Sam Noble]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:10:20AM -0400, Nick Frost wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Kristen Eisenberg wrote:
> 
> > Dear Glug;
> > Does anyone understand how to use cron with filezilla.I would like to
> > limit the size of a cyclically enlarging file, on a repeating second day
> > purge cycle.
> 
> Phish.  Not certain how this happened but it was posted by Anthony originally back in April.  I'm guessing the NMGLUG archive was indexed by Google (see 3rd entry on below listing) and a spam bot decided to phish for replies to obtain valid email addresses.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=cron+filezilla&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
> 
> http://lists.nmglug.org/pipermail/nmglug-nmglug.org/2011-April/003373.html
> 
> Turing test completed. :-)

Dude, I think I failed, no wait, they passed, whatever.
That's sort of a brilliant spambot, that even with our low traffic I was
assuming that "Kristen" had googled up A's queries and was following up
with a similar problem. I didn't notice that it was the same message
verbatim. On a busier list I'm sure that would be super effective.

I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding the goal though, just to
harvest the legit addresses that reply directly to the bot?
Or to try and drum up traffic on the list while they're subscribed?

(They're banned now by the way.)