Yahoo has apparently found yet another way to assist spammers.
As if longstanding abuses of Yahoo Groups weren’t enough for the spammed masses to suffer though, their blog site, Yahoo Pulse, is now making life easier and more productive for spammers as well.
The latest emails being spewed throughout the Internet have long and convoluted Subject lines (in an attempt to evade spam filtering) that allude to online sales of medications, such as:
Subject: extraordinary tablets tendered for superb way of life
Subject: supplying exceptional capsule brands for lots of years
Subject: web outlet tremendously suggested for pills purchases
Microsoft, itself a massive spam-enabler, is sending the vast majority of these emails (if not all of them) through hijacked Hotmail accounts abusing it’s mail servers. While the From addresses may or may not be legitimate Hotmail accounts:
From: Boyd Owenby <boydowenbykac@hotmail.com>
From: Stroum Elliff <estroumuel@hotmail.com>
From: Elphonte Stutz <stutzelphoduec@hotmail.com>
The actual sending mails servers most certainly are Microsoft’s:
from col0-omc4-s15.col0.hotmail.com (65.55.34.217)
from col0-omc3-s9.col0.hotmail.com (65.55.34.147)
from snt0-omc1-s27.snt0.hotmail.com ([65.55.90.38])
