Saw a rather devious comment spam yesterday.
My wife is a Marriage celebrant and is registered on several "portal" sites where potential customers can contact a celebrant via a contact form.
Anyway - my wife got an email via one of the sites yesterday which looked quite genuine - the customer was inquiring about a wedding on a particular date. When she crafted a reply back to them she immediately got a yahoo out of office response with a spam message in it. I suspect her email has also now been added to a spam list.
So it's either
- someone who as written a bot to input valid data into forms trying to trick the receiver into replying, then capturing the address and spamming them back immediately. Some of these sites would have a lot of clients - so wounldn't be hard to write something generic enough to get a lot of responses.
- a genuine request and someone has hacked the person's yahoo account and put a spam out of office reply in there
I'm hoping it's the 2nd one for her sake!
