A Legitimate? way to SPAM using yahoogroups.com

SPAM, I sort of dislike it and prefer my mail box to be free of SPAM. Spam filters like spamassin are very much effective against it. But for around past three-four months I have been receiving a new form of SPAM, in the form of yahoo groups invitations. All sort of marriage alliance invitations, hey I am happily married, please stay away. If I block one another one pops out, even I am helpless.

BTW for now I have reported this particular SPAM group to yahoo customer service and lets wait and watch what comes out of it.

My spam filter seems helpless and gives a negative score on this SPAM. Here is a sample:

Received: from n7a.bullet.scd.yahoo.com (n7a.bullet.scd.yahoo.com [66.94.237.41])
by mail.xxxxxx.xxx (Postfix) with SMTP id 001B26385FB
for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:02:20 +0530 (IST)
Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lima; d=yahoogroups.com;
b=I5a+gXr8JH4GDhZmGZU03LN0zwPXEpxbpz88tHwZ1RyCFaeGIqov2Vyl/91dz9ZhgXk
qSUoXTRsZNtxtC7CI7r1d18N7MSK+CZ50F6XS/LaTGlrTEkbwPCnJmKxeQVjB;
Received: from [66.218.69.3] by n7.bullet.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Mar 2006 08:35:10 -0000
Received: from [66.218.66.70] by t3.bullet.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 17 Mar 2006 08:35:10 -0000
Date: 17 Mar 2006 08:35:10 -0000
Message-ID: <1142584510.683.46393.w103@yahoogroups.com>
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-notify
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: anjali_inani2006 moderator
Reply-To: confirm-invite-uo3DYafviccAJuAQUmfRAFWK2Xw-ajaypal=xxxxxx.xxx@yahoogroups.com
To: ajaypal@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: Invitation to join the anjali_inani2006 group

X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.868 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 autolearn=no
tests=[BAYES_20=-0.74, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS=1.447,
HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_BASE64_NO_NAME=0.224]
X-Spam-Score: -1.868
X-Spam-Level:

Hello ajaypal@xxxxx.xxx,

anjali_inani206@yahoo.com has invited to join the anjali_inani2006 group
hosted by Yahoo! Groups, a free, easy-to-use community service.

By joining anjali_inani2006, you will be able to receive
email announcements, share photos and files, coordinate events and more.

NOTE: This is an announcement or newsletter group, so only the group
moderator may post messages.

This invitation will expire in 30 days.

Here's an introductory message from anjali_inani206@yahoo.com:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

FREE ONLINE REGISTRATION

More Than 10000 Maheshwari Marriageable Bio-Data of

Brides and Grooms From Different Maheshwari Sections

E.g.: kabra, ladha, gandhi, jain, gupta etc.

Largest Number of Well Educated Maheshwari

If you or your relative is looking for any Maheshwari match than you can visit

http://www.maheshwari.org

Join This group

Join This group

------------------------------------------------------------------------

and so much more
blah blah
...
...
.
.


Here is Another SPAM group managed by some marriagetrust596@yahoo.com.
They sent this message to me:

Shape Your Dreams into Reality
At
http://www.marriagetrus t.com

Ek Rishta

Vishwas Ka

Online FREE Registration Form available at
http://www.marriagetrus t.com

1,00,000 Marriageable bio-data of Well Educated

& Well Settled All Communities

Brides and Grooms

Join This Group Join This Group Join This Group


As per whois information both spam groups managed by some Dwarkadas Rathi of New Delhi.

Any my request to yahoo customer support



I never requested any type of email/ service form the said persons, but I recieve invitations from them on my yahoo as well as office email address. I am happily married but hey thats enough. Please stop unnecessary invitations where group owners buy email addreses in bulk and then invite them. I do not want to block genuine group invitations but ofcourse marriage invitations must stop.

Please help

PS: This is not the first such group, I have marked many as spam in my yahoo inbox.

Nevermind, I will post more such dummy groups here.
So much for free speech and own blog :-)

Submitted by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal on March 18, 2006 - 8:02pm. categories [ Exposed | Security ] Ajay Pal Singh Atwal's blog | 1367 reads

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