It appears that the character behind these strange “SPAMIS” spam messages that have been showing up recently is indeed trolling through domain registration records for e-mail addresses as I suspected.
I have received another one of these “SPAMIS” messages on another e-mail address I have used only to register domains, and for no other purpose. That makes two of these messages I have received at two separate e-mail addresses like this.
Since this guy is a well-known professional spammer, he is most likely using some kind of automated procedure to cull the e-mail addresses from domain registration records.
I’m sure this is not a brand-new tactic on the part of the spammers. If there is an effective way to gather e-mail addresses, yo can be sure that the spammers know about it.
It looks as if I may have to start changing the e-mail addresses perodically on my domain registrations. Since my hosting account allows for hundreds of e-mail addresses, it won’t be a major problem. It will just take a little time for me to log into my hosting account and make the changes.
If you have a hosting account that allows you to set up forwarding for e-mail addresses, it will make it a lot easier than setting up a full mailbox. I do this with the addresses I use for my domain registrations and just point the forwarding to one of my “real” e-mail addresses.
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