spammer klutz of the day

[cellio]

[...]
Received: from ibm55941kl (unknown [62.90.241.68])
        by wormwood.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7AB72684
        for <***@pobox.com>; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:20:41 -0500 (EST)
From: respond@jewishbib.com
Subject: Important Juewish WEB Site

Dear Chaver,

Shalom!

We are happy to inform you that we have relocated to a permanent address:
[...]

I don't know who this spammer is, but a legitimate source claiming (via domain name) to be Jewish probably woudln't have misspelled "Jewish" in the subject line. And it's certainly not any domain I've had prior contact with, either from surfing or from a mailing list.

Traceroute implicates "barak.net.il". The word "barak" means "lightning". That's a thought: a lightning strike on their server room would be a fine idea in my opinion. :-)

I don't go after spammers any more unless they're persistent (most are one-shots who can't be found anyway), but I reserve the right to publicly mock the goofier ones.

Comments

[malkah.livejournal.com]

I can identify!:-) I'm currently spammed by someone called "Talmudic Toches."
Oh, and I've also received spam from people claiming to sell the Lubavitcher Rebbe's mikvah water!!!

Barak online is a real ISP in Israel, btw, if that helps to know at all.

Talmudic Toches

[cellio]

I got that one last week for the first time. I didn't look past the first couple of lines, so I can't actually say what they were selling. My mental spam filter seems to be pretty good, even if most software isn't up to the task yet. :-) (Actually, the problem with software is mostly in false positives -- the filters available through my provider would catch pretty much all the spam if I let 'em, but they'd also catch some real mail and I don't want that.)