I was rather dumbfounded when I fetched my mail just now: after weeks of relative ease and perhaps one or two spam mails per day (thoroughly training one's spam filter really does help!), I got about 120 e-mails that are clearly not genuine. I could tell, because they were all bounced e-mails from everywhere, rejected because they were sent to unknown addresses, but with mine as the original sender.
Now, I'm quite confident I don't have a spambot lurking in the shadows of my operating system (if I were, my provider would have shut me off faster than you can sing the Spam-song), nor am I the one who is trying to shove that shit, it's a new way of sending junk mail, otherwise known as spam.
You see, spam filters are getting more and more powerful. Seeing that the amount of spam received by me on a daily basis went from over a 1000 to only one or two per day since I started using and training the filter, you could say it's pretty damn effective.
The problem with these "address unknown"-messages is that it's rather hard to distinguish genuine messages from the fake ones. I have been training my filter to the bone, but this is just disgusting.
Now, here's hoping the filter can be trained for this stuff, otherwise, my e-mail address of nine years is doomed.
As for the spammers; I'd really like to get my hands on one, and 5 minutes alone with him/her.
Just five minutes...
Cheers, K.