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[leicaman]

And Jan-Willem G. Never considered that the spam address might have just been randomly generated?

[mgpalma]

leicaman, on 21 July 2012 - 06:29 AM, said:

And Jan-Willem G. Never considered that the spam address might have just been randomly generated?

Exactly. Spam is randomly generated EVERYDAY. Spammers generate million of messages per day to all sorts of weird combinations since it doesn't 'cost' a computer generating such spam anything to try every variable under the sun and computers are very fast at generating these.

[tatilsever]

mgpalma, on 23 July 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Exactly. Spam is randomly generated EVERYDAY. Spammers generate million of messages per day to all sorts of weird combinations since it doesn't 'cost' a computer generating such spam anything to try every variable under the sun and computers are very fast at generating these.

A good journalist would point that out in the article, but he probably needs to write half a dozen such articles every day just to afford three meals a day.